No, this isn't a car channel only. I love cars as many of you do, too, but I admire anything with an internal combustion engine. Locomotives are cool as well 😠👍
Fun fact, EMD, although currently owned by caterpillar, at the time of these engines being designed though, EMD was wholly owned by GM, yes, as in General Motors, GM also owned Detroit diesel at the time, and often shared tech between the 2 companies
There are thousands of EMD 567's, which were in production from 1939 to 1965, then the 645 went into production from 1965 to 1984, then the 710 engine went into production from 1984 to still in production today. Still in service all over the world in locomotives, marine, and generator service. A great engine with a fabulous service record.
That would be cool. All you'd need are two sets of circular tracks, one nested in the other. Put the front bogie on the inner track, and the rear on the outer track. Boom, train donuts!
Napier Deltic and Paxman Valenta absolute legendary engines.. of course the Glasgow built merlins being the best Engine humans have ever created especially the later 2 stage2 gear ones when they really pushed it. Back them days they never realised the looser low compression Merlins were capable of being blown or supercharged to silly power. The Scottish designers and testers of the original PV engine that was built as a race plane engine for Rolls Royce figured out that if the engine was a well made one as far as crank balance and it sounded good ans started first time every time.. but had initially failed the compression check evenly that it was allowing "blow by" they then noticed they engines could run copious amounts of power before failing as long as oil pressure was on the ball. The rest is history. You can all thank some Very Inteligent Scottish people and that's no lie.
There are still loads of class 55's but most of them are only used on preserved/private railways. However some are occasionally used on historic rail tours :)
I love all your videos. If it's powered by an internal combustion engine or electric motors, I find it fascinating. you should do a video on military vehicles or heavy equipment. You could do a whole series on those two topics alone :-)
Yeah, I don't know why Visio gets so much hate for his accent! He's pretty darn informative and enjoyable to watch, and then the accent haters come in and ruin the comment section.
I like the EMD 12-645 best, as most of my childhood it was used for passenger trains from suburbs to the city & always loved the sound as they pushed 5 or so carriages out of a station at what sounded like full throttle. (until passenger services were replaced by electric trains which we've had ever since.)
My father works at the GE Transportation plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania where they build locomotive engines. He works another position now, but he used to machine the huge cast turbo cases to tolerances on a vertical lathe. They almost never open up to the public, but the one time they did, of course I went and it was amazing. He's told me stories of engines failing in the testing rooms as and how they have to clean the fluids off the walls haha. If I remember correctly, these GE diesel-electric generators make something like 50,000+ ftlbs!!!
In Germany in the 70s there was an interesting Locomotive, the Class 210 (DB- Baureihe 210). It had an 12 cylinder combustion engine AND a Lycoming T53 gas turbine that was also used in the Huey Helicopter. When needed, it could start the gas turbine and create an extra 1150 HP to the wheels. Unfortunately this only was a short lasting project because the gas turbine was not reliable and there is not a single video of this loco on the internet.
That's one of my favorite engines used in British Rail locomotives, besides its bigger brother (albeit without an intercooler) 16SVT, fitted in the Class 40.
He said himself it is not necessarily a car channel. It is about anything with a combustion engine. He has made videos about trucks, and other really big engines in the past, and he has included a few engines used in trains in the past. So I was just hoping that he would make a video focused on trains. That is all.
thanks for this video ^^from 0 to 17 i was in algeria and all days before/after school i walked to the station to see the emd loco running ! great noise.
I miss the Class 66 which was a common sight in Europe. It had the V12 EMD 710 and I will not forget the sound it made while pulling a freight train through my railway station.
All the British Class 41 and 43 produced had Paxman Valenta V12 Turbo, not only the prototypes. GNER Class 43 were the last ones powered by original Valenta. The Valenta VP185 had 4 turbos instead of one, but the original single turbocharger sounds better. That single turbocharger is similar with that used in Alco 251.
Used to live next to a train station when I was younger. Those Valenta engines were so bloody loud when getting up to speed and the trains would have a push and pull locomotive so you'd have two of them screaming away.
Starting around the 2:30 mark, the unit behind the locomotive is a "slug." It's basically a locomotive without a cab. They are cheaper than a full locomotive and an double your tractive effort. The operator in the locomotive operates both with one set of controls. They are connected together (controls) through MU (multi-unit) cables.
A late comment here, but this deserves a bit of clarification, and along with that is included a bit of very general info for those who are curious. A slug is NOT just a locomotive with no cab, because a slug doesn't even have an engine! What it does have is standard locomotive wheels/axles with a full set of electric traction motors, along with a cooling fan for those motors (there is one motor per axle, as is the case with a standard locomotive), and a bunch of onboard weight for traction (without the enormous weight of the diesel engine, generator and associated mechanical gear of a standard locomotive unit, it's necessary to add "dead weight" to a slug for traction). Also, although the slug does indeed have an M. U. cable so that additional standard cab units can be connected and controlled "downstream" of the slug, the slug needs a set of special cables which allow the full electrical power output of the main generator of the cab unit to be equally shared between the traction motors of the cab unit and the slug. A slug can only be paired up with a cab unit that is modified to have these special power-sharing cables, which is why it's important to not simply refer to the "M. U. cables" as what operates the slug. A slug will only be able to "double the tractive effort" at rather low speeds. The advantages of using a slug become progressively less as the operation speed increases, and at typical road speeds slugs provide no real advantage at all. At low speeds, the diesel engine and generator of a standard locomotive unit are able to supply a lot more power than the unit's own traction motors can make use of, but connecting a slug to an otherwise standard locomotive provides a larger number of traction motors to share that power. Besides the obvious advantage of reducing wheel slip, sharing motive power among a larger number of traction motors avoids wasting power or overheating the motors at slow speeds. Therefore, a standard locomotive unit paired with a slug is perfectly suited for slow-speed lugging of heavy loads. On the other hand, when the travel speed is moderate or faster, the diesel engine of a standard locomotive unit is NOT able to overpower it's own traction motors so there's little or even no advantage to providing the additional motors of a slug.
I've driven haul trucks powered by Caterpillar, Cummins, MTU, Komatsu, and Detroit engines, and I'd love to have heard an EMD powered rig. The 2 stroke, 1325hp detroit 16V149T engine wasn't especially powerful, but it did sound the best of all of them. At that site we also had a vintage Lectra Haul M120 powered by a Cummins unit with an open exhaust that you could hear miles away.
Acura TL GTLM Nothing sounds like a Deltic or looks like the loco. Fast too. In 1983, the year they were withdrawn, they let a few go flat out, 125 mph fast.
Correct on the New South Wales eXpress Passenger Train having the Paxman VP185 (we know it as the XPT) - I have travelled on the XPT twice and to say the VP185 is a big engine is an understatement! It's massive but it's also smooth
Paxman valentas weren't just used in prototypes, they waere the original engines in all or most of the class 43 HSTs, eventually they were replaced by newer, quieter and more powerful engines, but it is the howl of a valenta working hard which sticks in my memory. That and the growl of a British class 37, or the whistle of the class 40's which I grew up hearing. Fantastic!
The New South Wales Railways (Australia) XPT is (and always was) a British Class 43 built under licence in Australia by Comeng (Commonwealth Engineering) in the early 1980's. They were essentially identical except for livery and some very minor cosmetic changes. The engine refit in 2000 was a life extension project which was originally considered unnecessary as the routes it travelled were intended to be electrified by that time.
If you do another railroad video, be sure to include the ALCo 251. These engines have a sound all their own, and even though ALCo went out of business in 1969, the 251 is still being produced by Fairbanks-Morse today, it's that good of a design.
Here in France, back in the 50's, Renault built two prototypes of a free piston two stroke diesel gas-generator turbine-drive locomotive. Their nickname was "boom-boom". Sadly, no footage are known to exist of these deafening monstrous things that actually shattered train station windows while passing by...
Visio, I don't know where you get your facts and videos from, but I'd watch you do a list on the 12 most impressive lawnmowers if you made them. You're one of my favorite RU-vid channels and I think a lot of us could say the same!
As kids we took shopping carts and put them on both sides of the track with a line in between them which was propped up with a stick in the middle of the track. Those carts had slot of mileage on them after the train went through.
The Paxman Valenta (12RP200L) was running from 1972 (in the HST prototype) right through until December 2010 when the final examples were replaced by MTU 16V4000 power units, or Paxman's 12VP185L.
I've delivered motor oil and put it in the engine of a locomitve before while they where doing an oil change on it. The engine took 225 gallons of a 40 weight oil. I even was on it while they started it. The model number 8-710 means 8 cylinders and 710 cubic inches of dispacement PER ONE CYLINDER!
