E8A & F7B - Cab Unit Interior Tour While Running
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Take walk through three running cab units and hear four prime movers idling at the Tennessee Central Railway Museum in Nashville, TN.
The tour starts with two ex-B&LE F7B and continues forward into E8A 6902, originally New York Central.
It looks like the interior of a submarine...
A lot of WW2 Submarines uses EMD engines
The giant cirle on the floor is where a boiler for the steam heat for the passenger cars would have been, One of the locomotives still has it's boiler which is that big vertical gray thing wit the pipes jutting from it in front of the rear door
Cool !
This looks a lot like the engine room of a large ship.
Pleasantly surprised to see b units still operating.
Oh yes they run all the time at the museum
Now that tour was much fun..
I could live VERY happily in that locomotive..!
I hate this when it's happened to me
Приятный звук. Моторы хорошо настроены.
That was really cool! I want to see that museum this year
Right they are planning to resume excursions in September. As with everything these days, that could change.
This is great to see and hear. Thanks for sharing
2:40 big blower!
I feel like trying to plug in the MU jumper is a pain on these older streamliners that haven't had MU receptacles installed on the sides near the MU hoses. Also, I wonder if there's any E8Bs still in working order that haven't been converted from twin 12-567s to a single 645E.
Why is there so much trash inside?
Magnificent. Thank you.
It's like a battle ship!
Nice to see older models of the locomotives still active to this day!
Here in Brazil, old diesel locomotives are still used, but they are not as well maintained
are the same models as American locomotives
At 0:03 id hate to be the engineer trying to put that mu cable in there. That receptacle is pretty high although, there is no snowplow or anticlimbers to worry about that helps a lot.
Any cabs equipped with A/C for travel in hot climates?
That's a rarity on older locomotives like this. I think some F units built for export to the Middle East had some from the factory. It's the norm on modern locomotives, though; they have to keep the electronics in the can cool, and the railroads have discovered that if they can keep cab windows closed they are paying less claims for hearing loss.
Yeah, the windows open and you can turn the heat off
Where do you go to the bathroom
The cab units were originally equipped with a toilet in a back corner. Since this is a museum operation the engineer can always just go to a coach at a stop.
@@CameraBryan - In the case of a freight train you'd need a toilet; is it a flush type or just a dry hole? Would there be a sink to wash hands? How is the noise level in the cab at 80mph?
For the enter driver interior run and horn the train honking honks horn remember 🤗
Very good video, thank You for sharing it.
Back in 1993, I had a chance to get a ride in the Conrail Business train from Boston to Springfield and back. During the trip, I was invited up into the cab of the lead E8A. It required passing through the cab and then the engine compartment of the 2nd. unit and then passing through the lead unit's engine compartment to the cab all at track speed. It was very noisy and hot but well worth it and riding in the cab was a thrill.
It would be nice to one day see a set of E units or F units (or both combined 😉) that still has the diaphragms intact....I wish I knew why every single operator seems to have ripped out the diaphragms on these units at some point during their service life. They were there to keep the crew safe while going between units with the train in motion (just like the gangway planks and chain ropes on road switchers). I guess they lost some of their relevance when shops added nose MU connections to A units...
They do look nice, but they required maintenance, and like lots of non-essential items that need maintenance they slowly disappeared.
looks real cozy
Beautiful
There are two prime movers.
In the E unit there is
@@CameraBryan Yes. You guessed correctly. Bravo!
@@CameraBryan Yes. You guessed correctly. Bravo!
Very cool to not only see running B units but both prime movers in an E8 as well!
Awesome ldle
Awesome
Why did we ever get rid of streamline locomotives like this? They look way better than the ones we have now!
I love the look, but having switched with an F unit they are a pain for trainmen. They are also more complicated to build and service that way.
The old "Bulldog Nose" units were beautiful, for diesels at least.. but this video shows why they got rid of them. Imagine being an electrician working on those generators... what a pain in the ass it would be. Seems like it would be easier to just have the generators next to removable panels... so that's what they did. Ugly, but efficient.
Dankeschön
If my math is correct, the generators put out about 2500 amps, correct me if I am wrong. I'm guessing the combined output of all three units is around 8000 HP.
The E8 was rated at 2250 hp. The F7 (there are two on this train) were 1,500 hp. There was also a GP7 on this train, also 1,500 hp. I don't know if there have been any modifications that have changed the ratings.
@@CameraBryan I couldn't remember exactly, I didn't look them up. Thanks. Nice video, I love trains, the E8 is my favorite. I fell in love at 5 when I got to ride in the cab.
Guessing by amps is misguided. These are neither constant current nor constant voltage generators. They are called "constant-kW." You can have as high as 800 volts or as low as 100 volts while outputting 1800 horsepower in both cases. The 600 volt warning stickers are the nominal operating voltage of the locomotives.
Why was the video stretching all over the place?
artifact of shake reduction
Shouldnt they be a steam generator in that room in the E8A
There's an empty space in the rear now. The museum's cars now how electric heat and A/C from HEP.
The Milwaukee Road E9's came straght from EMD with H.E.P. generators installed.