How to start a locomotive engine with a Propulstation 72V 

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They are deep cycle batteries so no worries.

Damicske even for deep cycle batterys this low voltage is bad!, for 72 volts be ing 22 volts is verry lo, then giving it the ful power of the alternator will damage the cels even more!, this battery bank is not threathed nice.

Nope, it's Belgium. The green/yellow colorscheme belongs to the NMBS (Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen)

Haha LOL.

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Prettu damn good lol

+Daniel Allen Those Lincolns can jump start Godzilla back to life.

+Daniel Allen You can use any Lincoln to also turn a traction motor to true up wheel profile, as well.

They use blue as negative in Europe I think.. I remember that they use blue as neutral too I am pretty sure..

emdman1959 it is in belgium but there maybe is only one of these still in service

A few of them are still in serivce with Infrabel/TUC-Rail

NMBS/SNCB Class 55, Wikipedia has an article on them.

CreRay Well too bad SNCB/NMBS isn't using them at high capacity. They're quite old and probably some of their original routes had already been electrified, that means diesel traction is dismissed. But I think they can use these GM's for rescue trains or in infrastructure work trains.

yep,V16 . a bit down on power at 2000 HP though.

Mercmad it is a rootes blower engine not turbo probably a 645 so it only supposed to produce 2000 hp.

Alcoc415DL415 Hmmm, could be right but They could mean 2000 KW too. I have power tested V12's which routinely put out 1500HP and some of those were 40 years old with a lot of hours on the clock.

Mercmad According to wikipedia, prime mover is a GM 16-567C, 1435kW

It is. Nowadays, we still use the Class 55 in Belgium to haul track maintenance trains. These locos were built in 1961/1962 and are the oldest remaining diesel locomotives on the Belgian rail network in 2017. And they still sound impressive! I'm still able to capture them on video sometimes

Steve Young: 1. I did not criticize anything. I simply asked 3 *questions*. 2. Even if he did I *had* decided to help him with my language, why should I have to know his language if he had already chosen on his own to learn my language? 3. Since when would you know if he was Dutch? Apparently you don't have a clue, because the other part of his description is not in Dutch, but *French*. That shows how much you don't know. 4. So when your brain has developed enough to know that he wasn't even speaking Dutch, then *maybe* you can complain (but even due to #1, your complaint would still not be valid).

Steve Young: 1. Corrected, thanks. 2. My attitude was not "bad," because: a. asking questions isn't about having a bad atttitude, and b. it really is *helping*, not just "helping," and there's nothing wrong with that. 3. What should being in person or not have to do with anything? 4. You don't know how many languages the guy writes/speaks/just understands. 5. What difference should how many languages I know make? If I know one, then I can ask questions about someone else's use of one. Or I can even help them with it. If I know 2, then I can ask or help with 2. If 3, then 3, and so on. So what?

Because, Steve Young (obviously not the well-respected athlete with that name), 1. maybe the person *does* know what they were thinking might "belong to a thank," according to her, or him in this case. I don't assume I know what goes on in the person's head, and I wanted to give Ceteor The boost Maker Ceteor The Boost Maker a chance to tell me what he was thinking. And *if* that question was one that they didn't know the answer to, then maybe the *reason* they didn't was that it triggered a "Hmm, what was I thinking" response, and instead of giving a direct answer, the guy would say "Oh, I see; I just meant 'thanks'," thus giving him the benefit of being *helped* without actually being corrected by someone outside. But if he has an answer to the question, then that will solve some curiosity for me by letting me see what he has to day Why do *you* care, anyway? 2. What difference should being in person cause me? Wouldn't I have just as much of "the balls" to call you, in person, the ass that you are, as I would right here (which isn't even anonymous for everybody)? 3. You sound as if you're assuming that most people in Belgium, if not everyone, understand/speak/write in a certain number of languages. Why *would* you know how many languages this stranger or many others there understand/speak/write? 4. It doesn't because just because a person only knows one language well doesn't mean they've being "narrow-minded." Why do *you* care, anyway?

Steve Young, do you realize that I'm actually *not* "ranting," but just responding to your comments and *questions* that *you did ask*? No, apparently not. Do you realize that I did not give you "personal abuse"? No, apparently not. Do you realize that the more you falsely accuse people of stuff the more foolish you look than you already were? Nope, apparently not. Do you realize that you're being a hypocrite by resorting to the very things that you *thought* I was doing and looked down upon (not sustaining logical argument, etc.)? Nope, I see that you don't Ya might look into fixing all those problems.... Start with this 2nd Friday the 13th in a row.

Uhuhhh, Beatmania.co.nz.... I'm actually not pretending, though. Actually, *you* are one of the complete idiots; not me. And what supposed "point of superiority" do you figure you have, especially in the grammar/word usage/punctuation area, especially even though *you* made a related error yourself ("eachother" isn't a word)? And what supposed related error(s) did you think you were so smart to believe that I could've made, huh?

I think they ment KWatt. Also the 1450KW is the power of the locomotive engine.. not the power needed to start it. Crank start has a consumption of 1224A (88KW) but then it falls to 700A (50KW).. until the starting is still in progress.

Pirmy Yep! Makes a lot more sense!

leave youtube and get a lot more back. You also spare us your wailing....

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well dipshit the CO2 emissions from producing the amount of electricity to power all of America's railroads would be staggering! plus the exposed canternary electric lines would endanger birds and other wildlife! I wish you tree hugger fucks would do some actual research into this shit before you start beating your gums!

, and there will still be emissions at the generating plant

Some places you need to go dont have electric and not near supply

That's nonsense. Running passenger- and freight trains on diesel still produces less emissions than all goods and passengers on individual vehicles. if a railway line is not fully occupied, electrification often makes no sense. so even if you run an old diesel locomotive, you're still more environmentally friendly than with anything on the road. Sure, electric trains are better. ecologically and economically. But just not everywhere. Plus: you're wrong about firing a combustion engine on hydrogen: It produces NOT only water. You forgot about substances in the air. So it also produces toxic nitrogen oxides. You can only avoid this by running on fuel cells or use urea -not so well, either. You're so blinded by your good intentions, so you don't think your stories through. Don't think you have the answers to all questions out of the blue, just because you think you have the "right" attitude.

Yeah, not gonna work. 1st. Industrial lines are too expensive to electrify and 2nd. auto cars can't be unloaded if there's an electrified overhead wire.