Crazy Cold Start Diesel Locomotive Engines and Sound 

The flames, where are they, we need the flames

Click bait Still great video

And, of course, *SOOT!*

I came expecting flames…

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As an apprentice back in the '70's we got to play around with some really old diesels, huge hand cranked single and twin cylinders. Can't remember their brands, but one at least was a "Lister" The way to start them was to crank the flywheel as fast as possible with the cylinders set to NO compression, just to get momentum and some lube oil flowing. then quickly move the decompression lever to "high" compression to get them firing, and very quickly move the lever to "low" (more like "normal") to continue running. Getting the timing of the compression lever wrong resulted in some hilarious, and on rare occasions painful events. (hold the crank handle incorrectly and risk broken fingers, wrists and dislocated elbows) As you say, the engines shown here would benefit from being spun over without fuel to get the lube oil moving, and some heat into the combustion chamber. I'm surprised they didn't have an effective "pre-heater" for the incoming air as well. Have seen Eastern European operators soak a rag (and even a stripped corn cob) with diesel, remove the air filter, and hold it lit over the air intake. Very effective.

I thought I heard bad knocking. I assumed the engines must have been built for it.

This is true on 6000 cid natural gas engines as well. Let them crank for 30 seconds to build some heat up otherwise too much moisture

Exactly! Diesels need heat!

@@iffracem , i saw your "pre-heater" method being used to start a loco in siberia on a tv show. you can count on siberians to know the best way to start a cold engine. ive seen how they start their cars too. build a fire on the ground under the engine.

It’s all in the maintenance.

I just want to point out, there was a Winter a few years ago in the UK where Modern Technology FAILED as it was so Cold. They not only brought out the old Diesels, but also the even OLDER Steam Engines to run the Rail Networks for a week or so in some areas.

@@nevermindmyname9153 We had similar problems in Sweden with the new French locomotives arrived, they are normally good and reliable locos, but they where not really made up to standard to meet the Nordic winter in the beginning so they had to do a lot of changes to them before they could be put back to service, In northern Sweden there are still quite a lot of old 1970-80s (a few of them are even older) locomotives still running in active duty or serve as active backup, some of them simply because they where still in such good shape that they where bought up by other companies to be used as cargo trains. The old Swedish cargo locos where originally designed to met up to the standard for the old northern iron ore, i am not joking when i say that, that one can certainly even be worse than the Canadian coastline during the winter...

when theres no air left in the atmosphere the engine wont be able to run

Ha

@@Tactikill44 hello leokimvideo

perkins used flame start on there engines,there was a glow plug inside the inlet and when you started them 1st you had to glow 15-30 sec and then when you cranced it diesel was injected by the diesel pump.

@@MrRichard57000 you kinda a year late but yeah

Drop a match down there and open the throttle

Actually most of the older locomotives don’t have a starter. The main generator has a starting winding which is used to crank over the engine.

Stupid hey...It makes me mad when most "tubers do that now.

Thanks for watching :) more videos comming soon

I used to work on a lot of a model 3512 cats, 16v92 screaming eagle detroit's, and Cummins v12 mechanical. Nothing like those old barges, screaming eagles like to run away and come apart

@@spiritualawake2984 Wait What are you talking about? We talking about train

in a residential area non the less lol

May reve this yis toma no cu

@@juniorcasat7859 COME ON, I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU

If you're watching on mobile, you can tap and hold on the video and pull it down slightly to get rid of the stupid end cards.

Install adblock plus. Then you can block elements. I really hated those idiotic cards, but with adblock plus you just block them.

@@JohnDoe-bd5sz you know you only have to go into the settings of the video and turn off annotations to get rid of them. But yes I agree as Adblock Plus is brilliant and a must have

is Justin Trudeau gonna charge a carbon tax on that too?

Sadly

That's all bs. Artificial scandal to German automakers. If US cannot make and sell decent cars abroad, then they will try to ruin the reputation of others who can make and sell. Just look how many German cars roam in the US and how many US cars roam in Germany.

@@ferencszathmary9689 I drive a US car from 1988 Chrysler convertible And that for 26 years. US import with special approval for European roads. There are many cars in Europe from GM Opel. The problem with American luxury cars is the procurement of spare parts. The taxes for muscle cars and power of the engine. But I think any Lincoln or Cardilac can compete with Mercedes on quality as well.

@@ottospalt4892 Where do you live?

@@ferencszathmary9689 Germany😃

Probably the best maintained. Beats me how the batteries sustain the output to turn over the engines.

Ian McKinnon they all sound bad because they’re cold, not necessarily badly maintained, the reason some sound better than others is because they’ve been cold less

@@class87srule they use air starters

Not strange at all, the Sulzer engines have a much higher compression ratio than most others. It makes them more efficient but heavier and more expensive, more than double the cost of a comparable English Electric engine if I recall correctly.

The Deltic went pretty quick.

I hear one regularly in Hull sound to be savoured and a sight to behold

Yes we will need them when we get dirty bombed….

I remember Caterpillar doing that since at least the 1930's.

@@vernonmatthews181 I've never seen one but it sounds like you have. they couldn't have been very big, were they? my original comment should have read "heard of some diesel engines"

@@kevinducharme1263 The one I saw was in 1977 in New Zealand, it was a Vtwin that started a 1938 Caterpillar 6x4 Grader, I can still remember it starting up & the two huge levers that allowed the smaller engine to engage the flywheel of the parent engine, the engine partially exposed both sides was a long stroke 4 cylinder diesel. 😎👍👌

@@vernonmatthews181 man, you old-school guys rule!

@@kevinducharme1263 Hey thanks brother, have a great day ! 😎👍👌

Indeed, EA189 still plagues my VAG engine..."#$* germans.

I love my VAG 3.0L diesel. Makes such glorious sounds that beast.

@@PedroLucas-hk3vo HEY I AM A GERMAN I DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT

@Widget Drat interesting

How so? It’s just a starter cranking

Sufiya H. Yeah she needs to be looked over that was very knocky even for a diesel

Me too. Had one rumble past me years ago when I was a kid walking along the track, felt the heat from the engine, smelled the fumes and oil. Such a powerful beast.....So huge, at least compared to me age 6 anyway.

Three crankshafts in a triangular format, two spinning one way and the remaining the other way. An 18 cylinder two stoke diesel with opposed piston design. Each bore had two pistons in it with a crankshaft at either end injector in the middle and inlet and exhaust port at opposing ends of the cylinder and it was supercharged. Quite an advanced engine and unique sound!

They would have to be some healthy block heaters, to warm 400 gallons of coolant.

They normally take a bit more persuasion than that, don't they.

😝😝😝

the first train is the ceo of climate change himself

20V645 power plant, that is, 20 cylinders at 645 cubic inches per, 2 stroke. 3600 HP EMD SD45.

Lucas copied that sound from REAL LIFE engines and slow-down them creating odd sound...

@@kleetus92 great engine. I’ve worked on lots of them. Very very simple and easy to work on EMD engines. Everything is just big and heavy.

Clagg is the black smoke emitted from the exhaust and " not inside it"

This is Euro 0 hehe

Rather Euro -10 🙈🙉🙊

Lucky you didn’t get hit with a huge piece of metal lolll

No a Thomas the tank engine

@@F-22-Raptor2R no, its not

yaaa😂😂😂