Hi guys! In this video I have collected Russian locomotives, with a dying diesel engine! You will see a lot of smoke and fire coming out of the tailpipe of the diesel train! Thanks for watching and like!)
A lot of it has to do with long periods with the engine at idle. In cold climates they might never shut them down. And they may idle for 24 hours or more. Big diesels are made to work, not idle. So when they idle they burn inefficiently and unburned diesel builds up in cylinders, exhaust manifolds and turbo chargers. When they power up you see smoke, carbon and fire.
I would agree with Terry's comments. If you notice, most of them are also spewing small bits of firey chunks. I suspect that's unburnt carbon. After the burning process a whole lot of smoke. A runaway engine would self-destruct eventually, none of these appeared to do so.
I disagree totally ! Why ? because where I worked, our diesels were always idling when in between jobs. We did not have any of these issues the Russians seem to have. We left our engines idling to keep temperatures hot and clearances maintained.
0:05 white noise 0:23 possessed train 0:51 Fire snort 1:21 Coal roller picking up speed 1:50 broke down 2:20 The most haunting scream you would ever here from a train 2:47 more or less white noise 3:23 one of the engines was doing better than the other 4:07 another coal roller with a broken train horn
This is what happens when a diesel engine has excessive wear, or a lt of time. They will start pulling oil from the crankcase, past the piston rings, and into the combustion chamber. This results in a "run away" situation. When this happens the only way you can shut it down is to cut off the air going into the intake. This can also happen with a worn turbo, pulling oil from the bearings in the turbo. Some diesels will do it if the injector rack sticks wide open.
When I was in tech school for diesel engine repair, they had an old Detroit diesel engine from a city bus set up to run away every time as a demonstration. The roar is deafening and its a tad scary when you feel like the engine could explode and send shrapnel/hot oil everywhere
Most of these are just blown turbos. Oil builds up around them when they go bad and they start to burn. No run away just alot of smoke. There was a run away in the video though.
Yeah I have no clue what the operating speed of these engines is but some of them sound like they're revving way higher than a big diesel engine would during normal operation. I'm surprised more diesel engines don't have air shut-off valves, it's a $100 part that protects a much more expensive engine.
@@alexbeuerman7608 some have too strong of a vacuum and would utterly destroy the system, especially if its a MASSIVE engine. these trains run north in terms of displacement and engines (v12 to V16) of 10 thousand cubic inches. up to 16K at best or 168L to 262L in displacement. these engines inhale ALOT of air and at that point the vacuum it creates is way too much. another issue is the fact its NOT a 100$ part considering the size of the engine itself and the complicated stuff. for a train like this? around 10 to 20K in dollars cause it is NOT cheap. and considering these are company owned trains, that will drive repair jobs too much. cheaper to replace the engine then maintain it especially a giant motor of that size. oh and did i mention it was complicated? the turbo's run in parallel compound meaning the smaller turbo feeds a bigger turbo but the same exhaust that goes into the smaller turbo goes into the bigger turbo (aka parallel). im a mechanic in diesel engines so i study this stuff alot
These fires are incredibly common. They result from either fuel or lubricating oil getting into the intake, often a failed compressor turbine, but failed head gaskets and other failures can result in these fires.
Actually, for the 2 stroke engines, non turbo, which are the multi stack locomotives, if they aren't being ran hard or frequently loaded to capacity, they will acccumulate carbon in the exhaust ports. By running them up at power for a period of time in the yard, it will burn and blow that crap out. They do it in the yard because they can control any fires that may start from the hot carbon... where as doing it on the road, you don't know where it will be. The turbo engines running full black... those are most likely turbo failures. You can load the turbo engines up too, but it's harder to do, and harder to clear them out. Moral of the story, these engines are made to work, not be babied around the yard. They want/need to RUN.
CAT used to do de-glazing powder which was abrasive dust in a can to clean the gunk off the cylinder walls so the piston rings would seal. Like pouring sand into the air intake :o) Anyhoo, they would blow engine oil out of the exhaust if they weren’t worked hard and this fixed it.
This is called a “runaway diesel engine” for the curious ones, it’s a malfunction that disables fuel intake limitations and will destroy the engine if not stopped
Yep. We lost a old EMD locomotive on a passenger rail operation i worked for years ago. But that what happens when things are left to there own devices and not maintained properly.
Why say that? This is good to see all this junk was made in Soviet Russia and has not been maintained in over 30 years. The more junk that fails the less military equipment they can move to supply their army in Ukraine and invade the EU later.
Usually the flames from the exhaust signals either the head gasket failed or the turbo has decided to give up on life. Doesn't mean the engine is toast, but it is going to have to spend some time in the repair shop. It's only when something really important lets go like a connecting rod or a valve that the engine is totaled.
They usually rebuild them. This isn't your car that you throw away after 5 years. The rest of the loco is still good (and expensive to replace), just swap in a new engine.
@@firetruck988 I can't believe how many people think a five year old car is done. My newest vehicle was a 96 Toyota. Every old POS was once brand new, and a little elbow grease can keep a car out of the junkyard, and a poor soul from having to bike in the rain! :)
@@jamesgizasson Ironically, it's due to climate change legislation. Fuel efficient engines, by the laws of physics, just aren't going to last as long. Your 96 Toyota was built in the era when engineers were still allowed to make good things.
YES, EVERYTHING IS FINE WITH THEM!!! THEY DON'T DIE!!! The usual cleaning of the exhaust system from excess accumulation of oil and diesel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Used to happen with the diesels my father ran at CN. Too much idling. Lots of slobber build up in the exhaust manifolds. Power them up and there she blows.
Russian,American,or other it doesn't matter. All these vids are of the engine TURBOCHARGER failing. The turbo feeds air to the cylinders in the engine, but when it fails the fuel/air mixture gets excessively rich which makes the heavy black smoke and flames. the operater shuts it down and the smoke/flames eventually subside.
It is not death. The engine design is so stupid and maintenance and service quality are so low that leads to the accumulation of oil in the exhaust pipes and silencers. From time to time it starts to burn and causes the steam loco effect.
I think you have identified the noise exactly. I think these are turbo charged diesels that have blown turbo seals and run away on the turbocharger lube oil until it seized. IIRC Russian diesel engines all tend to have common heritage, being copied from or inspired by turbocharged ALCO locomotives provided during WW2 lend lease.
Nicely done, Mr. Paul. Here in Canada, I remember travelling by train and getting stuck in Saskatchewan for a day or 2 because the train would freeze up. We'd get lots of blankets, etc., but nobody ever thought of building a fire... ;-))
Holy crap! Don't these things have some sort of emergency shutdown that closes the air intake or shoots CO2 into it? And they don't seem to have an exhaust gas temperature gauge or alarm in the cabin either, since some of them kept on rolling despite the fire.
In fact,all the engine seen here are soviet built K10D100 two-stroke diesel engines. The piston rings are prolly really worn out (given some of these engines have over 30 years of operation) and let oil into the mixture,when its not supposed to be there,causing the tons of smoke and flames seen.
I Guess those are 2 stroke engines runningaway due to an oil leak going to the air intake from the blowers lubrication system. Even when the speed governor cuts off the fuel injection the Oil becomes the fuel burning uncontroled.
@@danielcapo1991 I think so ! In fact, when I was 11 I use to drive a John Dere 445 with a GM 2-53 2-stroke diesel engine at my father`s farm. Once it run uncontrolled due to a leak of the fuel tank which was dropping and aspirated through the air filter. I was scared so much until I was able to stop it by dropping the 3-point plow which thanks God was attached to the tractor.
Cesar Beltrami...... Incorrect! These are ALL 4 cycle, and these have a habit of oil build-up in the upper cylinders and turbo's when idling for extended periods of time, then when they begin to show signs of smoking, they will run the engines up to full throttle until it all burns off.... in the case of it happening on mainline running... it "can be" a case of turbocharger oil seal failure, though sometimes only for a short period of time, during an extended hard pull on stiff gradients, creating extra high exhaust temps.
Работал на плав кране у меня такое было каждый год. В выхлопном коллекторе откладываются смолистые вещества, которые и загораются, от сюда и такой фейерверк минут на 5.
@@garage4612 Медведь получается при большой нагрузке в любой точке движения или при холодном дизеле. А возгорание в выхлопном коллекторе бывает в любое время.
That was very cool,, I must say. And scary at the same time.. I see that various personnel were keeping a safe distance from the mayheim. Nice work Mr Paul. James.
Well this is not a good sign that the maintenance crew at the shop is taking care of things. They just run it till it's dead. Might explain a lot of the derailment that happens. Need to hire more crew.
Nope. Communist countries. No matter how much effort a worker puts in, they are getting paid the same meager amounts and there are no incentives to be better, so why bother?
No dying engines here but russian adjustments: The Kharkov 10D100s in many cases run way too rich so exhaust pipes soot up with time. On full power the dirt catches fire and blows out of the tail pipe in flames and sparks. Running engines that way with totally wrong lined up injection systems of course increases wear and tear, so yes, they may give up quite frequently in service but not to be seen here. In Macedonia btw. equal units are in service with almost no smoke so the outdated Kharkov opposed-piston engines can run satisfying with some TLC.
Maybe Russia should work on burning diesel in the combustion chamber instead of the exhaust. Think of the fuel savings and the extra horsepower the engines could make.
Well a crap electric locomotive can easily die if conditions are not good. High winds , extreme temperatures , falling trees , etc can break the wires and kaputt , totally helpless lies the electric thing. Who comes in to save the day? The Diesel locomotive 🥰🥰!!
@@mahireddy9890 Even after 100% Electrification of Indian Railways EMD and Alco will have special place in every Rail Fans heart.They have served our nation for decades.
It looks like the collector drum of the exhaust has got clogged with carbon and it has caught fire. The sparks are particles of carbon blown out on the exhaust gasses. Maybe the locomotives are running very rich? Enough to make any VW look clean.
Side fact: Locomotive on first clip in front is Czechoslovak ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben Daněk) class 770 (T 669.0) - Here in Czech republic called "Čmelák" (in English - Bumblebee). Look at wikipedia here: cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokomotiva_770
Stack fires are quite common. Especially if the engine is left idling to long. We have them on our boat occasionally. The soot and oil builds up in the exhaust stack and when you finally put a load on it and give it full power for a couple hours it will light up and burn all that crap out of the exhaust. I had one stack fire that burned for 17 hours.
0:25 - radziecka lokomotywa TE10M. Ona ma silnik diesla dwusuwowy i strasznie dymi przy obciążeniu. Ale wszystko jest z nią dobrze, diesla nie rozniosło. 0:25 - Soviet TE10M locomotive. She has a two-stroke diesel engine and smokes terribly when loaded. But everything is fine with it, the diesel was not spread.
This is typical "Diesel Engine Runaway". You would think these companies would fit a device onto the engine to shut down the air (intake) going to the engine...... By shutting the intake the engine would be starved of air (oxygen) and stop. By letting it "run" the engine will destroy itself.
Yeah there are diesel engines that have a air shutter or similar or some sort of gate or other device to block off the intake manifold in a runaway situation I haven't even heard about people keeping plastic bags to put over the intake or air filter or somewhere in a way that would block the intake on tractors or other or generators or other diesel engines I actually once saw a former put black garbage bag over the the tractor air cleaner when the diesel engine started running away
