WILL IT START? 1962 DIESEL TRAIN LOCOMOTIVE!

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You know its a good engine when shutting it off is harder than starting it!

Incredible! What a testament to the quality that went into these machines. My mother was an engineer with the Florida Historical Railroad in Parrish. She would have loved this. She was passionate about resurrecting old diesel locomotives.

Old Cummins mechanic here, started for Cummins in Grand Rapids in 1969. The first engine that started was a small cam NTA 380 hp most likely. Has an after cooler in the center of the intake manifold. PT (pressure timed) fuel pump with a MVS governor (mechanical variable speed). that works when the upper throttle lever is activated. Small cam engine, 5 1/2" bore. The engine with the external fuel lines to each cylinder is either a 4 7/8" or 5 1/8" bore. Could be a 2 valve head or 4 valve. This engine was out of production pretty much when I started in 1969. I did work on hundreds of these though. Both engine had 3 push rods per cylinder with the center push rod operating the injector plunger to compress the fuel thru the injector cup in a fine mist. Three lobes on the cam per cylinder. Big cam engines IIRC came out in the mid 1970s. Previous poster had it right on how to tell by the cam roller boxes along the side of the block below the fuel pump. I worked on a couple of L Cummins in switchers. They were very old when I started. Think they were about 6 1/2" bore and ran at slow rpm of either 1,600 or 1,200 rpm.

I'm not even a mechanic... BUT I have fallen in love with these videos! I've always looked at old motors like this in abandoned vehicles and wondered what it would take to re-start them. This is incredibly fascinating. These old motors were such incredible feats of engineering.

Oooh a train, this is gonna be fun

Bro found salty from thomas the tank engine

Bruce is back and just killing it with the content. Planes trains and automobiles my friends!!!!

Its near impossible to not get old engines back up and running. Those things were meant to last.

Great work guys! Just a thought before starting on a restoration. The lining of the cab on the second Plymouth had that white fluffy sprayed-on Asbestos look about it. I could imagine it may be a bit of insulation for hot/cold climates. Might be worthwhile getting it tested before stripping the cab. Asbestos is bad stuff but was used back in the day as it was cheap and a good insulator - breathing in only a few fibres can lead to lung disease years later and down the track (no pun intended). I'm just mentioning it as we had a friend who use to work in a naval shipyard in the 1970's removing the asbestos lagging from inside ships and submarines. Unfortunately It got to him later in life. Took 45 years. Be safe!

The first locomotive they started wanted to be in the series of “will it shut off”

Man could you imagine if one of the railroads in Florida took those and restored them to functioning condition how nice they would be , they would be nice for yard switching. It's sad that they are rotting away and sitting abandoned.

Thanks for dropping so many episodes. Love having you back!! I really appreciate being able to watch your channel again. Keep up the awesome content!

Amazed that those old locomotives started! You just can’t beat a diesel! Great content!

That first one wanted to run with no problem. I'm thinking an excellent candidate for restoration.

Nice to see old bits of machinery and kit being bought back to life!. Great job!....

Really happy to have you back Bruce, I know I’ve commented on all your other videos that you’ve posted so far, but I like this one the best. you’re really getting back into the flow of things too. I could tell you were pretty rusty on the first couple videos , but now you’re back in the swing of things just like you were before. You picked up kinda almost where you just left off. It’s really great to see and be honest in that downtime you really got yourself together, so maybe the probation thing was a blessing in disguise! you know what I’m saying, you had your son , and now you got another bean in the oven! you got your businesses up and running great , you got your shop running great and business is moving ! everything is moving and you’re working hard , you and your brother got the hobby shop , and everything‘s looking up man!so take it all as a blessing in disguise. sometimes Things happen to us that seem to be the worst ever and I can see that when they told you you couldn’t do YouTube videos anymore ,it was really a kick in the balls. because it’s like your subscriber base was growing so much and so quick and the momentum was right there. that’s like somebody in the music industry who has a whole bunch of hits and doesn’t continue on and they become one hit wonders because they’d stop dropping the music and stop becoming relevant. But you were able to pick off right where you left off ,and continue on and we missed you buddy . good to see you back congratulations on the son and the one on the way ! congrats to you and your brother with the businesses and blessings to all you the whole family. amber,Aaron,moms, pops and the little ones!! We love ya Bruce! Alex in Wisconsin-

You are the only reason I'm still watching YT, great video brother, and thanks for sharing.

My dad and I used to be in a railroad club that had these smaller switcher engines. They are probably vintage late 40’s or 50’s. Very cool old pieces of American history.

In case someone hasn't answered it yet. Yes that was the hand brake. I use to run one of those often switching oil refinery. We called them dinkys.