Cold starting a shunting locomotive

A norwegian shunting locomotive, the SKD213. It has a straight-six Rolls Royce engine, 12500cc, probably about 215 BHP. The engine has no preheating/glow system.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• locomotive
• diesel
• cold
• start
• skd213
• nsb
• railway
• rolls
• royce

[MF11283]

215 hp??? can it even move its self?

[unusualstuff]

@MF11283

If you give it full throttle, it actually spins the wheels!

[sentinel040]

Nice clag! The Rolls C6 is a direct injection oil engine and as such does not need a preheat system. Had you set the excess fuel plunger on the injection pump?

[unusualstuff]

No, i didn´t. There is no cold start lever in the cab, so i have never really thought about it.

[88GTi]

Oh yes! Love the way the lights go dim when the engine is cranking! 5/5 :)

[Uber2DaMax]

@MF11283 215 horsepower but a shit load of torque. probly more than 2500nm

[Pugragger]

@MF11283 its only a shunting loco :\

[Kokosiak1]

@MF11283 @MF11283 don't yell,I replied to your first post (5months ago), because I didn't see the rest of the conversation. Sorry for that.

[MF11283]

@Kokosiak1 are you to fucking stupid or to fucking lazy to read a little of what I said and realize I WAS JUST TALKING SHIT???

[Kokosiak1]

@MF11283 shunting loco doesnt need much more, actually. the torque is necessary.

[danwat1234]

Sounds like a starter motor I would hear from an older V8 car ... so obviously does not turn the alternator into a motor to crank the motor like big locomotives.

[MF11283]

@tpvalley Im not an idiot, I was talking shyt fucking around. and HP is TQ X RPM / 5252 for lb ft, dude a torqueless hondoh will pull a bus with the right gearing, because you multiply torque with gearing

[tpvalley]

@MF11283

bhp is something thats worked out by :

torque x rpm/ constant.

so if rpm is low so is bhp, sometimes hp is actually capacity, or it was a while ago.

Anyway the top speeds r usually only about 20-25mph so they have a lot of low speed pull, like an old 70bhp landrover can pull a london bus in low range!

[joha77johaa]

bboooaaaah ! great !

greetings from an engineer from berlin

[MF11283]

was just talking shit dude, I know it makes a butt load of torque, Im just used to working around 5000 HP locomotives that struggle to get moving so Im just being a smart ass