COLD DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE STARTUP - V/Line Passenger A66

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Welcome to Schony747 Trains on Sunday. There is no Sunday fast 4 today as I was out filming at the Victorian Goldfields Railway.
Todays video is very short but well worth looking at. I captured V/Line Passenger A66's cold startup at Castlemaine railway station this afternoon. A66 and Y127 arrived from Melbourne the night before and A66 sat around for 12 hours before returning to Melbourne this afternoon. If you enjoy the video, hot the like button and smash the bell for weekly update on Schony747.
Have a great week - Brenden S.
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Filmed 31st October 2021 Castlemaine Railway Station
Filmed in 4K Sony AX53 Handheld
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@Merri-bekRailfan 2 месяца назад

First time hearing A66 fire up

@NicholassTrainChannel 2 года назад

Nice video mate. Love the sound of the EMD 645 engines.

@Schony747 2 года назад

It sounds really nice. The turbo sound really makes a difference

@brucewilliams8714 2 года назад

And to think these original B Class were intoduced 70 years ago next year, 1952! A66 was the VR Bicentennial-liveried loco. Green and gold in 1988.

@Schony747 2 года назад

They've done an amazing job! Even the rebuilt A is nearly 40 years old

@victoriantransportvideos 2 года назад

From Memory First time hearing a Locomotive start up in person

@Schony747 2 года назад

I've never experienced it either

@DivergentRailways 2 года назад

I would have been on the other side of the hill, glad I got a good bloke who was able to record it though. Good stuff!

@Schony747 2 года назад

I was fortunate to get this view. Right place and right time

@railwaysofvictoria 2 года назад

Nice Video. First time for me to hear a A Class Locomotive start up.

@Schony747 2 года назад

First time for me and most others looking at this as well I suspect.

@railwaysofvictoria 2 года назад

@@Schony747 oh ok

@hamish2202 2 года назад

The emd 645 v8 in the kuranda locos sound so good up the mountain the v8s have such a thump to them

@Schony747 2 года назад

This sounded really good! I was really surprised at how easily it started up.

@thomasburke2683 2 года назад

She started so quickly and sweetly.

@Schony747 2 года назад

Yea even I was impressed with the smooth startup

@GoldM4official 2 года назад

I’ve never seen A66 IRL. I wish i saw it on a 707 ops to tralagon

@noisehead701 2 года назад

Unfortunately that trip has yet to happen, and I’ll be looking forward to it when it does

@GoldM4official 2 года назад

@@noisehead701 really? I will catch it at noble park

@Deano084 2 года назад

Love this loco! Great to hear her fire up! Great vid!

@Schony747 2 года назад

I'm surprised at how easily and smoothly it started up. It's obviously still in great mechanical condition.

@dfross87 2 года назад

@@Schony747 A lot of the cold start videos I've seen are well below freezing. This looked a touch wamer than that, which probably helped.

@alexthompson5275 2 года назад

It looks good in orange and grey

@peterhearn3297 2 года назад

Best birthday present ever, on the 15th of December 1975 going to Quambatook and back on B66+T365 on a block train( grain train). She is not a B class but she still has the number!!!

@Schony747 2 года назад

Awesome and back in the days when experiences like that weren't a problem

@AndreiTupolev 2 года назад

I love a turbocharged 645 starting up

@Schony747 2 года назад

And slowly idling away with no care of the world. It sounds really good.

@muhammadchalidafin5644 2 года назад

The sound is like airbus airplane before take off on the runway

@Schony747 2 года назад

Interesting comparison. I'll have a listen next time I'm at the airport.

@christopher-2000 2 года назад

awesome

@Schony747 2 года назад

It was awesome standing at the platform. It's not very often you get to see this

@dieseldavetrains8988 2 года назад

Sounds just like an 81 class start up. Thanks Brenden, good value, although I was looking to see if you had the little Y class in VLine colours...

@Schony747 2 года назад

I do. That will form a Wednesday feature in a week or so. I've got lots of video to edit and put together of the Y

@daciatravel.647 2 года назад

Very good video!

@Schony747 2 года назад

Thanks 😀😀

@TheTouristLine 2 года назад

Great vid, like others have said that seemed easy 👍

@Schony747 2 года назад

That's the general consensus and pretty good for a rebuild from 1984

@heathertruskinger6214 2 года назад

Wow

@Schony747 2 года назад

That was my initial thought as well

@australianrailwayproductio3277 2 года назад

Cool video mate

@Schony747 2 года назад

Thanks 😀😀

@louiskats5116 2 года назад

Goodday Brendan, Nice Crank for sure. So who does this A Class belong too. You watch Qube will hire it to do the Deni or Maryvale. Cheers Louis 👍

@Schony747 2 года назад

It's still owned V/Line Passenger

@ianwoff7000 2 года назад

That's the easiest cold start I've seen, after all the on-line vids of cold starts taking forever, with billowing smoke and even flames!

@Schony747 2 года назад

Yeah I was really surprised at how well it started up. It's been well looked after and should be around for a few years yet

@bigman4225 2 года назад

that is because it wasn't a cold start. it was turned off at around 3am and turned back on around 5pm. engine would be still quite warm

@ianwoff7000 2 года назад

@@bigman4225 Thanks for clarification!

@bigman4225 2 года назад

@@ianwoff7000 no problem.

@COLINJELY 2 года назад

Does it have a small donkey engine to start it? Compressed air?

@ryandavis7593 2 года назад

It has two large starter motors. The can be either thirty two volt in series or sixty four volts in parallel. They are about eighteen inches long and eight inches in diameter. The also weigh about ninety pounds. Please don’t ask for metric as I don’t have those numbers off the top of my head. Some locomotives have air starters. The older straight DC units had generator start utilizing the main generator as a starter motor. I work on the same American class of locomotive, the SD40-2 as a composite mechanic. The SD and GP40-2 are among the best built locomotives of all time. Greetings from the high plains of Texas.

@jandlpearson 2 года назад

@@ryandavis7593 she's closer to an SD39-2, only a 12 cylinder after having the 16 cylinder 567 removed and upgraded. Unfortunately I can't post the photo I have of the starter motor set up as the heritage group I'm in has one to restore.