This is a very good overview of how these amazing machines work. In the future I would like to see more details on how to actually start and run a diesel-electric locomotive.
Love the 26L brake handle with the automatic lapping system. As an experienced diesel locomotive engineer at Hocking Valley Scenic Railway I have used this alot on our EMD GP10.
What is the height and length of the diesel electric locomotive? How do engineers and firemen board the engine? How do engineers drive in reverse? Thank you!
Any information regarding the exterior lighting control panels like for the headlights for example? That’s my biggest interests I’d like to know of please and thank you :)
I heard about the "bathroom" in the past being right there in the front. I think it's hilarious to imagine a train going by, somebody squatting right in the front of it, just on the other side of some metal...
I am not 100% sure but I believe it’s just the way those F40 locomotives were built. And also I don’t think it has the capability to run at a constant speed unlike the P42DC Genesis built by GE. I don’t think EMD figured it out but I know GE has it.
@@metronorthrailfan2244 In Tunisia we have mostly North American locos mostly EMDs they loven EMD here for the phosphate mines in the south of Tunisia because they are robust and less sophisticated than say German Siemens locos that have too much electronics and so. My favourites are MLWs with Alco engines inside I love the smoke and chugging hhh
The original F40PH locos did just that, and to run in HEP mode the prime mover needed to run at a constant high-RPM rate. They were often dubbed "screamers" for the noise they made sitting still at stations. Some later models were built (or re-built) with a separate HEP generator to allow the prime mover to idle at lower RPMs.
Ultimately, a pretty cool video. However, I feel like the music wasn’t necessary. I also kind of think the tour was just a bit simplistic, but that might just be me being a railfan. Anyways, thanks for sharing.
This is a very good overview of how these amazing machines work. In the future I would like
to see more details on how to actually start and run a diesel-electric locomotive.
Loved the video! Thank you for the lesson! I would definitely enroll in ur class!
I wish you guys would have done more videos like this
Love the 26L brake handle with the automatic lapping system. As an experienced diesel locomotive engineer at Hocking Valley Scenic Railway I have used this alot on our EMD GP10.
Great video, thank you!
What is the height and length of the diesel electric locomotive? How do engineers and firemen board the engine? How do engineers drive in reverse? Thank you!
I am guessing that the part which got cut out, about the 2nd braking system, was about the dynamic brakes.
Any information regarding the exterior lighting control panels like for the headlights for example? That’s my biggest interests I’d like to know of please and thank you :)
Inside the cabs of diesel locomotives what makes the ticking sound? Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick?
I heard about the "bathroom" in the past being right there in the front. I think it's hilarious to imagine a train going by, somebody squatting right in the front of it, just on the other side of some metal...
I’m gonna put an engine like that inside of a Miata. Don’t worry it’ll fit
It'll take a mighty big shoe horn.
Why don't they take power from the main alternator for HEP?
I am not 100% sure but I believe it’s just the way those F40 locomotives were built. And also I don’t think it has the capability to run at a constant speed unlike the P42DC Genesis built by GE. I don’t think EMD figured it out but I know GE has it.
@@metronorthrailfan2244 GE is a specialist in electricity hh
@@thelovertunisia Precisely which is why GE stands for General Electric
@@metronorthrailfan2244 In Tunisia we have mostly North American locos mostly EMDs they loven EMD here for the phosphate mines in the south of Tunisia because they are robust and less sophisticated than say German Siemens locos that have too much electronics and so. My favourites are MLWs with Alco engines inside I love the smoke and chugging hhh
The original F40PH locos did just that, and to run in HEP mode the prime mover needed to run at a constant high-RPM rate. They were often dubbed "screamers" for the noise they made sitting still at stations. Some later models were built (or re-built) with a separate HEP generator to allow the prime mover to idle at lower RPMs.
I had no idea that the “head” was located in the nose, learn something everyday
Do the F40's dynamic brakes work?
Dynamic break only use for train run in gradedown...so dynamic brake apply and easily handle train
Can you do one on steam locomotives
GCR has two steam locomotives, the 29 and the 4960
@Archer Stanton Grand Canyon Railroad has two steam locomotives, the 4960 and the 29.
LJL, did you see the one on 4960 yet?
Former Amtrak F40PH locomotives.
I've always loved that brutish look US locos have and now i find out its the toilet! . . . .
Um. Why do I NOT see a sink in that toilet? Please tell me you wash your hands after you go to the bathroom.
Ultimately, a pretty cool video. However, I feel like the music wasn’t necessary. I also kind of think the tour was just a bit simplistic, but that might just be me being a railfan. Anyways, thanks for sharing.
John, the tour was intended to be simplistic to accommodate a wider audience and short attention spans.
We have a longer one on our Facebook channel.
i would love to watch this, but the music is too much, still going to give a thumbs up
Hy..i am loco electric tecnician at pakistan railway
would have been great if not for the STUPID music