GE AC4400 Engine 

As a locomotive engineer on Conrail back in 1985 I went to work at Beacon Park yard to discover I had a GE B23-7 for my switcher job and while checking it over called the engine house and inquired how many injectors he had on hand for a 1900 series locomotive? He replied two!!! Not enough I replied. He showed up at the west end about 3 hours later just as we were coming off our dinner break so we climbed on the engine together and he said she don't sound good. Then walked out on the catwalk to checked over. Turns out I was right, I only had 5 working cylinders. Throttle to the third notch of power engine loaded electrically smoothly to 900 amps then backed off as the engine couldn't rev up under that load, once it got to that third notch of engine speed it would start to increase the load and would hold it but if I went to the fourth notch it couldn't generate enough power to maintain the fourth notch of power. Next day, same engine but the engine house foreman left a note for me on the throttle stand, 12 rebuilt fuel injection pumps and injectors. Purred like a kitten. I like the -7 series for yard switching plenty of compressed air, nice riding class B AAR trucks, good engine brakes and enough power to pullover 80 plus 100 ton hoppers of trap rock from a bowl shaped yard easily. And a cab heater that can blast you out of cab on low heat and comfortable steps for my crew to use at either end of the locomotive. And with throttle responce it loaded quickly and accelerated easily. And with 2250 horsepower you weren't at a loss of power.

Beautiful 7FDL sounds! I love that knockin' rhythm!

What an awesome symphony of mechanical noise!

Had some rhythm to it didn't it!!!🎶🎶😂✋🏾😀

Really neat video! Would love to have heard more at idle.

I did nozzles for the first time on a 12 cyl 7FDL last week, when I went to start it and it sounded like that I was so nervous. I thought I blew it up!

nice audio! comforting sound.

That's because we stop cranking the engine before there was enough fuel injection pumps primed and injecting fuel into the cylinders to keep the engine running. The second attempt was more successful.

Buenas tardes, excelente música para mis oídos

Nice

What a chore to get a locomotive diesel engine up and running... I can see why they try to just leave them running...

eu adoro isso, amo!

I love the sound of a FDL all up until a cam section or a PA gives out.

+Claude Hébert It was an eastern diesel of siome kind, I don't remember the model.

FDL16 rules!!!!!!!

120 seconds of starting and 7 seconds of running. Would have been nice if you could have let the video go a little longer of engine actually running.

Someone left a horse shoe in the cylinder.

She rang the bell maybe a low lube oil pressure

I'd like to know what wound up right there at the end when it came to idle

Was it that type of engine that lost a cylinder head and threw a piston flying 150' and through a house's roof? It was in a CN train getting back from the USA towards Canada.

as locomotivas AC44CW possuem 16 cyl . as locomotivas ES44AC possuem somente 12 !

the knocking sounds like a steam train

Music!

7 FDL12 Kazakhstan yes

Type of engine is a V16?.

Cheese Cheese Cheese Cheese #ChizMill

Стук на дизеле

GEs have only 12 cylinders, not 16 like EMDs do

Sounds like a bag of old spanners, GE always sound terrible.

Cooper-Bessemer design.

She rang the bell maybe a low lube oil pressure