Freight Train 4059 accelerating at full throttle at Iisalmi

[Kyosuke1989]

@Jaymz1265 At Finland.

[simonsgl]

@Jaymz1265 Finnish Freight train in Finland is a kinda clue dont ya think?

[CaptainChaos]

@Jaymz1265 What part of "Finnish" and "Finland" did you fail to understand? Or perhaps you did not know there was a country called Finland?

[Jaymz1265]

@CaptainChaos Sorry CaptainAsshole, guess I did'nt see that part.

[jenssoderberg]

Now that is one mean looking locomotive

[aprotosimaki]

Nice video. Interesting to see a Finish freight train at work but still love my Canadian trains.

[themaster91156]

Ding ding

[TheAZJacob]

Nice speed!

[theorangelemons]

Foreign trains are lame and aren't as awesome as American trains! and why do they need a double header for 12 cars? In America they single head for 60-70 cars

[kilobitti]

@theorangelemons I love it how you call anything else than american "foreign" even when you participate in an international discussion. Then again, I guess ignorance is a bliss.

[itapirkanmaa]

@theorangelemons That 1000 HP engine is an all-rounder in Finland. (As are all Finnish railroad engines.) It will pull passenger trains in singles, and work in a 1-2-3 configuration for freight trains. There's no need for a "coast-to-coast" heavy freight ability of the U.S. engines. 3000HP is considered adequate as these engines usually ply the lightly operated routes.

[LordoftheKaty]

The railroad company should update their color scheme, because I think those engines would look really nice in clean and bright earthly colors like green. HJere in America we use to have hundreds of beautiful paint shcemes on our trains, but now we are left with the BNSF CSX and UP whose paint scheme is a bit dull and not very alluring. NS has my favorite paint scheme. But I think one of the best was the southern and MKT scheme.

[steelraptor]

2 stroke diesel ftw!

[Kyosuke1989]

Not at all, Four stroke 72-litre V-16 MGO ;)

[steelraptor]

O wow Four stroke? Im surprised most trains out there are two strokes.

[Kyosuke1989]

Yes, maybe in US they are mostly two-strokes, but in Europe and Finland, they are mostly four-strokes :)

[iceman977th]

@Kyosuke1989 EMD's are usually two strokes, but the majority on the railroad today in America are GE Dash- series locomotives, as well as GEVO's- all, if I remember right, are 4-stroke

[iceman977th]

@Kyosuke1989 That'd be a negative. It's an even mix of two- and four-stroke.

[francovance1]

Pielstick?

[Kyosuke1989]

No, MGO, license-built by Tampella Oy.

[huettmr]

boy those are ugly looking things

[TrainFIN]

Tämä on muuten yksi ensimmäisistä katsomistani junavideoista täällä.

[L324RT12]

maybe if you guys worked for a railroad & actually ran trains you would know what a engine looked at full throttle, on what appears to be a level grade.

[uyesu]

erm.. no black soot = no full throttle.

[Kyosuke1989]

Wrong! MGO-Tampella V16 BSHR does not give black soot, except when throttling very aggressively. LOTS of blue soot comes out when long idling ends and engineer gives some fuel to the engine ;)

[uyesu]

if 'full throttle' isn't 'throttling aggressively' then what is throttling aggressively, and whatever your response, can throttling aggressively exceed full throttle? not only that but it looks as though a long idling period ended some time before the captured drive-by.

[saosurvive126]

Black smoke occurs when you give it high throttle under heavy load. Like if you just gave it full throttle to start moving or going up a hill you increase throttle a lot. This train was obviously running at full throttle for a little bit before it passed. Also you can see a little grey-ish smoke coming out.

[isomolle]

@saosurvive126 Black smoke is in fact unburnt fuel. This is usual before the turbocharger kicks after the driver opens the throttle.

[saosurvive126]

@isomolle Yeah...thats basically the point i was making. High throttle, heavy load, generally before the turbo spools up. And i'll just settle the smoke color argument: Black is partially unburnt fuel (soot). It's also a sign of over-fueling under load. White is unburnt fuel generally occurring on cold engines or with leaking fuel injectors. Grey is a little partially unburnt fuel...not quite overfueling.

[Kyosuke1989]

Increasing throttle agressively is better expression. And when throttle goes to the full in 10 seconds or less from idle or low rpm (less than 900 rpm), that's increasing throttle agressively. Maximum continuous rpm for MGO-engine is 1500 rpm, and that's full throttle. In peak when increasing throttle agressively, rpm's can get to the 1670 rpm, but motor fuel injection controlling system stabilises rpm to 1500 rpm in about two seconds. But if rpm goes over 1670 rpm, control system stops motor.

[jopsuli]

Kaunis harmaansininen kömy nousee nokassa olevasta deeveristä <3

[claesmard]

Nice train!