37604 Cold Start..
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Publicado 2018-09-11
It was going to be easier if it would move under its own power so after a few minutes it eventually did.
Thought I lost this vid as Ive changed the phone twice since 2015
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Lovely, one cylinder at a time. EEs never did like starting on cold mornings.
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You can almost count each stroke of the pistons. Love these old girls!
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This takes me back to starting old Gardner diesels in winter. My uncle used to use an oily rag, set it alight and hold it near the air intake to get some warmth into the cylinders. If you were really posh, you had an old Tilly style paraffin blowtorch. Once it fired you went and had a brew and returned once all the inevitable clag had cleared.
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Man these trains are amazing from Serbia here and when i found out about british trains ive been obsessed by them even got a old Trying Class 37 set and a Static class 45 45022.
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I like the cute little smoke rings it keeps sending up!
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D37604: "Ugh, why so early in the morning, (yawns).
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With a very heavy workload preserving and restoring old trains, and medicine I take for nerve and joint pain, I keep coming back to this video as a visual of what getting up in the mornings is like. Especially on three or four hours of sleep a night for weeks on end. At least people have what the locomotives don't: Coffee.
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Used to love starting them up on Sellafield on a cold winter morning, covering site in black foul smelling diesel exhaust!!
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"We're running out of tape..." "Thats only the second cylinder now"
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That's frigging awesome! The engineering behind huge diesel and also steam engines is so fascinating.
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Didn’t know 37s did smoke signals must be trying tell us something
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There's a warm place in my heart for a 37
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I love how after starter cuts out engine manages to run at 1 RPM for so long before deciding that it will have to start. How much easier it would be if they had pre-heat like cars, though not as photogenic or fun !!
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We had a hand crank diesel compressor with one cylinder. Screw a lit fusee into the cylinder while cranking. The trick is to pull the crank back at the moment the engine "caught" or you had the engine spinning the crank dangerously fast. The chug chug chug of the engine catching in the mountain air was a delightful sound and a fond memory.
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Fantastic, been onboard a deltic at Doncaster in the 70s, got lucky as a kid with my mum and the driver let us on for a look around ,just the look and colours are magic, and the deltic/piston arrangement is just so awesome special.
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...that starter motor is the PERFECT sound for this cartoon~ faced diesel...
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Nice to see that this class is still in service,and I love that sound.
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Imagine the person having the keep their finger on the start button for that long.
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Top video! It’s a crafty technical detail built into the class 37s to communicate to other locos in the yard via smoke signals that they’ll soon be rumbling through…it won’t be pretty…and sure as hell won’t be quiet!
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It's nice to see a 37 cold start! I love 37's
