Nevada Northern Railway Company Diesel Train Experience - EMD SD-9 (by GM) - Ely, Nevada - June 2022

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0:00 - Intro
0:07 - Diesel #109 Startup and Shutdown
1:18 - Moving over to Diesel #204 - walkaround and intro
1:38 - Opening the doors to the Engine House
1:47 - Diesel #204 - walkaround and intro
2:29 - Startup of #204
2:56 - Backing out #204
3:38 - Torpedo
3:45 - In-cab instructions
6:47 - In-cab train functions test
9:02 - Radioed in and Setting Off
9:48 - First railroad crossing and using the horn
11:32 - Stalling the train
13:30 - Startup Procedure, Stall and Startup
15:44 - Back on the track
17:47 - Using the brakes at speed
18:52 - More throttle
20:05 - Enjoying the cab view
32:14 - Wipers. Breaking them too...
39:17 - Stopping and turning around
40:30 - A little about the Northern Railway Company and volunteers
42:14 - The End and Goodbye to #204
My friend Bob Turnberg had invited me to join him to operate a diesel locomotive in Ely, Nevada. I couldn't turn down the chance, and ended up getting to operate it for the entire time. It was a great experience and I had the chance to operate a 1,750 hp diesel locomotive from Ely to Lavon, Nevada. It was in an older ~1956 EMD SD-9 (built by General Motors). I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. I don't think I'll ever get this opportunity again, but with how many things that went wrong, I don't know that they would want me back!

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@TrainboyRR 5 месяцев назад

I love the video

@FreihEitner Год назад

21:07 - no inclinometer, they had no inclination to add one. Nice video; good to see the whole process from startup to running, with braking best practices bell/horn rules. Thank you for sharing this whole thing and not just a "best of" cut.

@agraygoat Год назад

Thanks. It was a lot of fun and I wanted to try to best record the entire experience of what it was like to do everything, "boring" or not.

@azore1184 9 месяцев назад

I am learning how to operate a Baldwin RS-4-TC on the local railway that I volenteer on. It has been an amazing experiance and a dream come to life for sure!

@agraygoat 9 месяцев назад

That's so awesome. Where are you located? It's hard to explain how cool it is to operate one. Live it up!

@nikdog419 Месяц назад

13:34 The lever on the right is the hand throttle directly connected to the injection pump.

@agraygoat Месяц назад

That's really awesome. Thanks for the info. It was a really cool experience and I just wanted to document it to share with others. I definitely wish that I could have spent more time around the locomotive because I love mechanical stuff. Did you work on trains before?

@jcl410 Год назад

I loved watching this. When I read the title I assumed when you said "stalled", you meant that the locomotive didn't have enough power to keep going up hill, not that you killed the engine!

@agraygoat Год назад

I'm glad that you enjoyed it. It was really fun. Off-topic, but I just learned that the Nevada Northern Railway will be re-expanding their tracks to go to the White Pine Public Museum (they had the tracks go through there before). I think this group does some pretty cool stuff.

@gordonvincent731 Год назад

Former SP 4426. I don't know the as built by EMD original number.

@FelicianaDelacruz 7 месяцев назад

4426 was originally built as 5468 and renumbered in 1965 to 3942 during the system wide renumbering and went through the GRIP program in June of 1977 emerging as 4426.

@gordonvincent731 7 месяцев назад

@@FelicianaDelacruz Great, thanks.

@GR10Productions 3 месяца назад

On older emd’s if you push the throttle all the way in pass idle that’ll kill the engine.

@agraygoat 3 месяца назад

Good information to know. We were stumped for a bit when it stalled.

@JFinnerud Год назад

I think you did good for being the first time and you shouldn't blame yourself for stalling the train. You ask the right questions and focus on getting your head around speed and brake control.

@agraygoat Год назад

Haha, thanks. It was a really fun experience and everyone was really easy-going. If you ever get a chance to operate one, you definitely should.

@railroadenthusiast6246 4 месяца назад

Normally a real train engineer keeps the horn blowing through the double crossing. As your doing the last long.

@agraygoat 4 месяца назад

I remember them mentioning that my horn was too short.

@2quintly Год назад

Poor kid, better stick to a cell phone, . . . .

@user-mp2tk3pw6j Год назад

@noahengelhardt3596 Год назад

What?

@stanfischer6175 8 месяцев назад

No, I don't think so. Whoever posted this video my hat is off to him as he now knows more about operating a first generation diesel than what I do. I'm senior citizen and looked at pictures of trains before I could read as I liked them so much. Stupid is forever but ignorance can be fixed.