37604 Cold Start..
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Published 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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All Comments (21)
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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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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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"We're running out of tape..." "Thats only the second cylinder now"
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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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D37604: "Ugh, why so early in the morning, (yawns).
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That's frigging awesome! The engineering behind huge diesel and also steam engines is so fascinating.
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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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There's a warm place in my heart for a 37
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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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It's nice to see a 37 cold start! I love 37's
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Cool smoke show! 🚂👍
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I love how it starts off with one cylinder firing and the rest of them all join in one at a time lol
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Nice smoke rings.
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Didn’t know 37s did smoke signals must be trying tell us something
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...that starter motor is the PERFECT sound for this cartoon~ faced diesel...
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Love the build up to it starting!👍
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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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I've only ever seen one fire up at Tinsley depot in 1986 awesome experience I love these beasts they're the best locos ever built for br railway in the swinging 60s
