The engine room of Australian EMD AT26C Locomotive CLP12. An SD40 in Streamliner car body. Unique to Australia and now owned by Southern shorthaul railroad.
I guess that is a restroom that is well ventilated if not incredibly breezy and loud. The air room is uncomfortable when in idle and borders the hubs of hell in notch 8. Greetings from the high plains of Texas. Great job brother from a SD40-2/EMD composite mechanic.
Thank you for sharing, the enginge is not so different to what i got in the loco I`m driving. I got the 16-645E3B to work with. To hear these engines ideling is music to my ears. Greetings from a Norwegian colleague.
I never realised the CL's had desk controls until now... It's a pretty modern looking setup for it's age. Similar to an 82. That cab overall looks like a damn nice place to be.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVERI would like to ask about the controls. When you are operating an EMD Streamliner type locomotive, do prefer the newer controls like in ‘Casper’ or the original controls as in the Victorian Railways B/A class type?
The body looks a lot like the EMD E units. The E units had two engines, from 1100 to 1500 HP each, and a steam generator. Now there is only one engine and no steam generator. We have one of the last E-9s built. About 15 years ago I looked into putting the engine, trucks, and electronics from an SD-40-2 into the E-9 body. The UP did it, but used the engine and electronics of GP 38-2s.
Timken roller bearings have AMTRAK on them, the originals. I heard that SSR are going to use the vacant head end power units section, partition it off, for a mobile barracks so the relief crew can stay on board and "book off" while the train is still travelling! Great video Adam, thanks for the tour.
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER I'd love to go down under some day. My old man did a bunch of times in the 90's as he co-wrote a researsh study with an Australian gentlemen, but had nothing but good things to say, I've wanted to go ever since!
The bog looks like for emergency use only. Has that ever been cleaned? Good thing it is placed right beside the main ventilator! The engine room looks like it could use a couple of acres of ArmaFlex!
They removed the 240 volt genny. That was the difference between the CLP and the CLF. The CLF didn’t have the genny. Hence CLP, passenger loco, CLF freight loco.
AUSSIETRAINDRIVER 2021 I’m a retired engineer off of the Union Pacific. In the US we can not use any electronic devices while operating. Have a safe trip?
@@billmorris2613 so I've heard, here there's a bit more flexibility as the train crew does just about everything including phone calls to dispatchers/controllers, yards, managers, relief crews etc.
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Definitely was built with railways, and is being destroyed by highways and car and pickup truck centricism. Healthy freight rail system, but totally lobsided car centric disaster of a passenger transport system.
Great video! The look like old American, E-8's. How much longer do you think they will be running those locomotives? Would be worth a visit that is for sure.
F unit front nose on a sd40...leave to the ozzies to do something different like there cars...they take bits and pieces of our cars and do mods to make it there own.
Love it how they give the ol girl windows to look out. Thats like baby gas turbine power levels. Did they ever use turbines in locos here in australia?
Unfortunately that’s not how it’s done. The fuel rack settings give you correct rack settings for the fuel injectors. If you turn it up the governors internal settings will simply not comply and may keep the engine from being able to be shut down. To add horsepower you must adjust the internal balance rod. It has a thumb screw that allows you to adjust the balance point. Unfortunately total horsepower is even limited here by air to fuel ratio. The turbo is rated for a specific CFM that is a product of gearing and impeller size. But that is only half of it. The injectors must also have proper metering rods to match the CFM. The only additional horsepower one can get by the governor is about 25 horses. How do I know you ask? It’s what I do for a living. Greetings from the high plains of Texas. No sass intended and all for education. Great discussion topic though.
@@ryandavis7593 Would it make any difference to the performance anyway due to it being diesel-electric? meaning is the actual power output the train can produce limited to the traction generator and traction motors?
@@TheAussieFloof Yes, But you really gotta crank the power up to burn up a AR10 alternator or D77 traction motors, The 20 cylinder versions pushed about 3600 horespower and still did fine with the 20 cylinder 645. So really in technicality you should be able to crank up the power and put it to the rails, youll eventially get to a point to where either the main gen or traction motors couldnt keep up or to where you would generate more power than the engine could put to the rails due to tractive effort
@@AquilneIce might need to stay in school a bit longer buddy, need to be at least 18, but even then it's hard to get into, don't cut your education short for any job if you can avoid it.
I initially noted how dirty the the interior of the cab was… the layers of dust on the desk etc… Then saw the toilet 🤮 I think I’d prefer to risk hanging my arse out the door
@@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER Thanks for that, I thought maybe there were engine cleaners at the yards or something. What's the general routine for starting one of these up?
When the controls get fixed up as it’s windscreen wipers don’t work, vigilance control is isolated.... it’ll be a while until it leads something unfortunately
