Ex-Kennecott Baldwin VO-1000
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2022
- For the first time in 39 years, ex-Kennecott Baldwin VO-1000 #801 is fired up. After replacing the batteries and thoroughly inspecting every part of the locomotive, it was determined that there should have been nothing preventing it from running. July 1, 2022 was selected as the start up day and with the go ahead from Master Mechanic John Henry, Con Trumbull brought the locomotive back to life. Less than a minute later, the old Baldwin settled into a nice idle while several shop workers finished up some smaller tasks. At 9:18am, Con opened the throttle and 801 once again moved under its own power and the crew ran her through the East Ely yard looking for and correcting any bugs that may still be lurking. Con and long time volunteer of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, Ron Taylor, spearheaded this project. Now that the locomotive is officially operational, the shop crew will go through and fine tune everything, clean and possibly repaint the body and then add the historic diesel to the active roster of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum.
The locomotive was built in December 1942 for the Bingham and Garfield Railway in Utah as their #.801 In 1949, Kennecott transferred the locomotive to their New Mexico Chino Mines Division and was renumbered 80. In September 1963, it was transferred to Ely, Nevada to Kennecott's Nevada Mines Division where its original number, 801, was restored. When the Nevada Northern Railway closed in 1983, the locomotive was stored in operating condition, and subsequently donated to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum when it was founded in 1987.
That's the sound of vintage AMERICAN POWER right there ! Music to my ears. A sound only a rail fan can love ! Job well done !
wrong. railroader too
Music to my ears also.
I worked in diesel electric power plants and that is what railroad engines are. Diesel electric power plants that move electric motors.
French power actually.
Being a "42 yr exp mechanic".
It always warms my heart to see some people like me who love restoring the things of yesteryears,
And not scrapping it just because it's old.
"SYLVESTER STALLONE"
said it best in "LOCK-UP":
"NOTHING IS DEAD UNTIL
IT'S BURIED".
And I live by those words.
Nothing like a beautiful old slow running De Lavergne prime movie. Love old Baldwin diesels.
I read here that this locomotive was built in "12-1942".
"DANG", This
"OLD IRON HORSE" is older than my Mom.
She was born in "1943".
she's still around, i hope.
@@rearspeaker6364
Same here.
I'd love to see and hear this old "IRON HORSE" in person myself.
best running baldwin this year! love that strait-8 non turbo sound!
I could go to sleep with that wonderful idling music..
How could you not love that!! What a beauty... Congrats to all that put in the time and expertise to get it running again.
Wow that exhaust stack placement sure does make for a nice smoke show!
Love that exhaust sound!!!
So do I
Now I can say I Know what a Baldwin Diesel sounds like. Congrats to al involved, on that fine day.
What a wonderfully heartwarming display! Kudos to everyone involved.
I'll sleep soundly tonight, dreaming of those beautiful sounds!
Amazing sounding prime mover! Begging to pull a load. Great job getting her back to life.
A piece of Utah and Nevada history!
First 80 years old loco tier 4 low emissions that i see. She was really lucky to survive. For sure she received very good maintenance in her working career.
Thanks to volunteers.
I don´t know who is the must happy to purr like that. Us or her ?
the purr, both of us!! the tier4 stuff: it was made during the war last thing to worry about was emissions!
@@rearspeaker6364 ya it was a good era for simplicity, not like today.
That is amazing. Great job guys!!
Can’t believe how smooth it sounds !!
They can’t build a vehicle that can run trouble free for five years but something like that fires right up after such a long rest, amazing.
Back when we knew how to build things--- without electronics or computers.
Bigger stuff also tends to last longer
@@user-mr3ct1dm9pFearing progress does not prevent it
Nice! Another Baldwin VO a-live and kickin'!
By far the best Baldwin sound I've heard, as I came along a couple years too late, to hear them live. Thanks for posting!
your not alone on this statement.
Don't know if I've ever heard one start up before but that was neat, was wondering if part of the quick loading was a electrical issue or possibly a case of having a switch mode selector button like some EMD's had. It definitely didn't hesitate in moving.
Nice vidio, congratulations.
What a wonderful day!
Another Baldwin lives.
Thanks for sharing your video.
Good video thanks!
The sound was great, now record a video loaded up!
One exhaust stack per cylinder, no wonder she sounds so good! Lovely loco, thanks for sharing.
It's definitely unique
Baldwin got a raw deal by WW2s war production board who favored EMD. Still, this is kinda like an honorary steam engine. The 8 strait stacks really make it unique. 😜
You could also say the same thing with Alco; both companies got shafted by the WPB during WW2...
We call that: Production capacity and timeline of deliveries, plus the 2 steam engine makers were building, y’know, steam engines and tanks and stuff
@@h0riz0n45 yeah true, but you got to admit, EMD was a division of a company that had very deep pockets in those days, and the three other loco builders didn't have that deep of a pocket...
They had good reason though; poor design choice by Baldwin, using pneumatic controls instead of electric. Made them incompatible with all the other diesel-electrics. You couldn't MU them to anything but other Baldwins. Not sure if the electric MU system was a patented design at the time or not, but GE and others were compatible with EMD..
@@wjsj69 true enough. What were those Baldwin engineers thinking?
Music to my ears too. I was waiting for the drums and guitar to kick in when it was cranking over. 🙂
This Engine is Amazing! 1942? And she's purring .
Complete w bell and horn.
Good job crew.
This is a VERY sweet sounding engine. Congrats to the team that got this up and running. Any chance you could post what you did to achieve this?
It was literally as simple as installing new batteries and fixing a broken oil pump. The pump was installed backwards the last time it was serviced in the early 1980’s so it was removed, cleaned, and reinstalled correctly. There some other minor tasks that I’m not sure of since I was not involved in the restoration, but feel free to visit the Nevada Northern Railway Museum’s official Facebook page or go to their website at www.nnry.com.
@@inarevil thanks for the insights! more!
Oil pump? Straight out of a Tom Clancy book, lol. Not the first time I’ve heard this explanation though…
She a beautiful locomotive.
@@inarevil I bet it was a "WTH!?" moment when that pump was discovered...
My grandfather worked for the Rio Grande railroad as a switcher for many years here in Colorado. He stayed there after union pacific bought them for a couple years before retiring. They still use those old Rio grande switchers there. Some of those things are absolutely ancient, but they still put them to work. Cool working pieces of history
That's a 1,000 hp De LaVergne straight-eight diesel. Four cycle, about 600 rpm. You can almost hear every cylinder fire. These were designed for stationary and marine use and as such were very heavy and not terribly suited to railroad use.
TOTALLY AWESOME!
Love those 8 exhaust stacks that it has. You could see the firing order when the engine was starting up.
Beautiful !!! I love it !!! Merry Christmas !!
Great video many thanks for sharing… Fantastic loco sounds great. Well done to the team for resurrecting a vintage loco, music to our ears… 👍 uk fan.
Sounded good. When I first started working at a steel mill RR, the locomotives were always running. I liked the anti-theft switch, the auxiliary generator! If this wasn’t up, the loco didn’t move.
Always great to see a restored treasure come back to life. There's a RR on the east coast called SMS rail services that has a fleet of old Baldwins if you have any technical questions about the locomotive its engine or electrical system they might be able to help congratulations
@thomasabramson100 and SMS has been busy recently with restoring a 0-6-0 switcher and an Alco FA.
Thanks so much for posting this video! I didn't get to see/hear nearly as many minority builder diesels as I would've liked when they were still in mainline service.
Will be really nice to see this all spiffed up and being part of the regular running rotation for you all !
And you can see the excitement on the engineer, sticking his head out the window he could hardly contain himself like a little kid. Totally awesome.
That was awesome! Sounds like a new engine 👍👍
Would love to see the work leading up to this point nice work people
Amazing!👍
Great bit of film👍
Gotta love those exhaust zoomies!!
Wow Congratulations 👏🙌 Everyone.....
I remember watching these (same model, or similar) working the Pennsy Ashtabula ore and coal dock. Neat engines!
Nice to see this 80 year old beauty move again under its own power, on the very same tracks as she moved for most of her life.
I live in the Netherlands close to the Belgian border here in western Europe and I have fond memories of several classes of locomotives on the Belgian railways which used license built BLH engines, classes NMBS 51, 59, 60 and 61.
The engines used were Baldwin 608A and Hamilton T89SA, given engines had been further developed by Cockerill to give higher power ratings and improved reliability and the last to go from their operational status in revenue service were class 51 in 2005, they gave a good 45 years of service. Several of the different Cockerill classes have survived in operational condition in preservation as well
Actually, she spent most of her working years in Utah and New Mexico before coming to Nevada. She was built for the Bingham & Garfield which eventually became a Kennecott property, then was transferred to New Mexico Chino Mines Division, then came to Nevada the work out her days. When Kennecott closed its Nevada operation, the locomotive sat until it was donated to the newly created Nevada Northern Railway Museum. There is some debate as to what year she was donated, but she survived to tell the tale…
Sounds good nice to see a bit of history come to life
a thing of beauty.
✨ Great Beautiful Moving ✨🚂🚃🦺♥️♥️💯🌹🌹🇺🇳🇺🇸✨👍✨💌✨✌️✨
Awesome! Open Stacks!
That sounds great, especially after being out of service for 39 years. Good to see another living breathing Baldwin diesel. They're definitely on the critically endangered list. ❤
Well looks like you guys managed to fix the Baldwin locomotive
How cool.
Awesome!
Burble burble burble burble burble burble burble burble
Looks cool because it combines the cab position of the old steam locomotives with the drive train of a diesel locomotive.
Nice to seen it move
Nice 👍
I still remember the Baldwin Hamilton Limas at Magma copper Superior AZ 3 of em 2 N A 6 cylinder engines 1 turbo diesel 8 cylinder . They were in movies , used cars , gauntlet . And others . Worked on the till mine closed in 82
Nice!!
Good American music 🎶 eight pipes popping 👌 Sweet Sound of Rail Power.
That's great!
8 separate smoke stacks... Amazing!
Very Cool video!
I remember when there was a whole string of retired Kennecot locomotives stored on a side track out by Salt Lake Internahional Airport for years & years.
I’m a Steam fanatic but I sure love the sound of an old Baldwin starting up. Hope it gets to pull some excursions in the future.
I can smell this video 👍🏻👍🏻
Things like this make me wish I lived closer to Ely NV, than Ely Cambridgeshire. One day maybe. But we DO have a cool cathedral lol…
Ely Minnesota wasn't far from a bunch of these, both U S Steel and Erie Mining. Alas they are now cut up or rusting in a scrap yard. The last one built is awaiting restoration at the museum in Duluth.
@@lowercherty - been to that museum, and they had a lot of work ahead of them then…
The American Locomotive Company had the smokies diesels of them all. I know because back in the 1960s the Long Island Railroad had them hauling passenger trains into Pennsylvania R.R station in Manhattan 3 blocks from my home in Richmond Hill, Queens, NYC. When I was a boy by their main line.
A great sounding early diesel engine too.
Cool! Rare breed now days!
8 stack ones super rare!
Jesus that air compressor has been running for 15 minutes straight
Safety rule 342.3: lube bell ringer before starting engine.
Amazing a survivor ❤😊
Incredible how easily she started aye
It May be a Diesel, but it sounds like a Steam Locomotive when it starts up.
Considering that Baldwin was once the Top Locomotive Producer for Steam Locomotives. It’s not surprising.
Also, 33:02, the Moment the Locomotive FINALLY MOVES.
GREAT
Not just running, sounding very healthy. All 8 cylinders sound the same.
About the pneumatic MU issue, I'm still trying to figure out all the various incompatible MU systems that British diesels had/have. At the front and rear of each loco was a colored geometric shape to indicate which MU system it had, thus whether it could be used with other locos. Wikipedia "Multiple working" shows 7 different color codes, Blue Star, Red Circle, Green Circle, Orange Square, Red Diamond, White Diamond, Yellow Triangle, all incompatible. Also a weird variety of couplers. There are lengthy videos on YT of mounting an adapter coupler for a loco to rescue an MU train.
never understood why BR let that happen.
@@rearspeaker6364 I suppose every UK loco builder came up with their own MU system, and there was no one in authority to tell them to stop. Also, pre-BR, there were multiple railway companies that hated each other. We have the AAR/ARA, which demanded standards for our enormous interconnected railroad system. My recollection is that ALCO started out with a different MU system, but realized they'd better fall in line with EMD. Most importantly, we have a variety of coupler types that all have the same central dimensions, so you can couple a freight car to a passenger titelock, and shelf couplers mix right in. Coupler height is also standard, along with air brake standards. We were very lucky to have the AAR early enough to prevent the madness.
@@SteamCrane Back in the early 1950s here in New Zealand the NZR bought a lot of English Electric locos and that was fine until in the mid 50s they standardized on EMD locos and found that the two didn't talk to each other. Some of the later EEs were modified to MU with the EMD locos.
@@SteamCrane Alco's move to use the 27point m.u. is why there are so many of them left on regionals and shortlines.
I'm sure Dirt approves all this work!
It’s alive!
THAT (IMHO) is the coolest YT "will it start" video ever! Even good sound. Possibly a stupid question: the lurch forward- is this electric or transmission power train? did not have the typical sounds of electric.
It’s electric. The lurch was likely due to the brakes releasing slower than normal as the throttle was moved since many of the parts involved were moving for the first time in nearly four decades.
DIG the crazy 8 exhausts!!!!!!😂
i like the video
Is that a straight 8 with an individual exhaust stack for each cylinder?
correct.
Do the exhaust pipes have covers to prevent rain ingress?
5:40-6:40 checking compression releases? Also wonder what all the behind hood observations were. Looking for oil, fuel, & coolant leaks? Comparing powerhead temperature differences?
Mainly looking for fluid leaks, but also listening for potential mechanical failures in progress…
Great video to see a vintage loco like this operating. What sort of propulsion dos this loco use , hydraulic or electric??
Electric. Hydraulic drive never gained favor in the US.
nice tail of the dragon shirt!!
Beee-YOUtiful!
Is there any reason why the bell mounting bracket is bent back towards the cab?
it found a immovable object, and gave in.
@@rearspeaker6364 dang hope they bend it back correctly
Sounds similar to a 8L3 Gardner with no exhaust muffler
Does the locomotive have a original De La Vergne 8VO 8 cylinder prime mover?
I assume so, but I’m not 100% certain.
Sounded like a steam engine when first starting up
Does this thing have vertical pistons ?
In 1963 or 64, I was on the roar heading west past Ruth pit area when a train was coming down to the plant. Its headlight was very bright so I flashed my hi-lows and the engineer dimmed the light. I didn't now this was possible. Does this engine have this ability?
Yes, all locomotives built for use in the North America have the ability to dim their headlights, and I would imagine the same for locomotives in other countries as well. This helps not blind oncoming trains and in some cases, automobiles.
My son loves trains 🚆🚂🚃🚄🚅🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🛤 and it really makes him happy when antique train is restored to operation.
Is starting the engine done by an explosive charge? I know some airplanes started their engines that way.
No, there are no explosive charges involved aside from the diesel igniting under compression....
I'm not super familiar with Baldwin or De La Vergne engine designs, but with EMD's standard DC design with the early 567 engines, the main generator draws power from all 8 of the 8 volt batteries (2 cells per battery, 64 volt DC system) turning the engine over until it's fully started to act as a starter motor.
Once it's fully started again, it goes back to its primary function as a main generator - creating electricity to send to the traction motors on the wheels as the source of drive power. The auxiliary generator then acts like the alternator, charging the battery and supplying power to accessory components and headlights.
It's a genius system, really.
Some locomotive engines actually use air to start the engine too, which is super helpful when it's cold out - batteries tend to draw less current when it's cold, and diesels don't like the cold in the first place.
As I'm sure we all know, if you run out of charge in the batteries... you're stuck!
Some tractors used to start with an explosive charge as well. Thing looked similar to a shotgun shell.
Coffman starter…
Seems to have strange wheel arrangement ???
too bad the audio was marred by that danged detroit buzzer
Will this engine get roller bearings to improve trucks ?
when it gets above 30mph for 3 hours, then it may need them.
Now put on that missing front bogie and give it a spin around the yard.