Help,, my locomotive won't start! EMD GP35M
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2020
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Cold weather will slow anything and anybody DONE. It's always nice to have a booster battery close by.
Good to see you. The cold seems to bring out the problems.
I know this is an older video but I just found and subscribed to your channel, I assume this rail line use antifreeze in the blocks so they can shut them down? I worked on a research project concerning SD40-2 locomotives at CP rail and Burlington Northern back in the mid ‘90’s and I was told they only had water in the blocks and they left the machines idling when not in use, if they shut down and the water got close to freezing an auto dump valve drained the block.
I just came across this older video from a couple years ago. As a retired Local Chairman from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen, I can assure you that it is NEVER the fault of the highly-skilled Ladies and Gentlemen who are entrusted with the safe and efficient operation of the machines that move our Nation's freight, when things go sideways. You are thinking of the sleepy creatures across the cab, known as the Conductor. And if it's not their fault, then next on the list is the Mechanical Department, followed by Maintenance in the Way.
If you need any further guidance on railroad troubleshooting, please don't hesitate to let me know. Always start with the Conductor.
I can argue that one. I have done repairs on locomotives that should have been reported through the daily inspection reports. I've had to replace a brake head and hangar arm because they didn't do the morning walk around. Wore the hanger into the wheel. I've had a unit run out of oil due to a leaking governor line that was never reported. When I found it I asked how long that was leaking and was told 3 weeks. Never reported. The list goes on and on. So to say it is never the engineers fault is totally wrong. I have fired engineers for these problems, but it keeps happening. I know if a few class 1 railroads with the same problems. As a consultant, I have seen more stupidity and neglect by engineers than should exist.
Never operator error? Bwahahaha!! Lmfao!! Come work for UP with me and you'll see.
Way to go bear
Hey, is that for the mbta? Looks like their paint scheme, iirc.
Probably not, too far from here to there.
You own that locomotive?
No, I maintain and troubleshoot a small fleet of locomotives.
If they had access to another locomotive I don't understand why they didn't push or pull the disabled locomotive and pop the clutch. I swear the kids these days just don't have the same common sense we had back in my day.
Lol. Wish it was that simple. I have heard of doing something like that if you have dynamic brakes, but not something I know enough about.
@@TopperMachineLLC Dynamic brakes won't work without a runner engine, so that's not possible to do anything with.
@@pootispiker2866 there is a way to do it. It was explained to me once. Couple jumper wires in the right places and blocked relays. All you need to do is create some excitation with a little voltage and it will build. A motor and generator are the same thing in opposite operations.
@@TopperMachineLLC oh definitely some hacky ways to go about it for sure. On the road with an engineer's knowledge it wouldn't be done. If i had to guess I'd say put some battery voltage across a motor field and shove it down a hill with the right things jumpered across the output. It's probably something to that degree. If you're at that stage though you probably have a locomotive to run a proper charge cable to.
@@pootispiker2866 it was done all the time back in the day. Electricians would go out to get units running with nothing more than their tool kit. Now days, they just drag them back to the shop. It was a Great Northern electrician who taught me most of this. He retired in the early 90s, when railroading was good. Unfortunately it is not fun or good anymore. You can't do anything without the threat of an FRA fine. It's the reason why I only go out in special circumstances.
Can not hear or understand a work you say in the one segment just after connecting the locos together. Also other parts too.