Firing-Up an Old STEEL GIANT | Oil Burning Steam Locomotive SNCF Mikado 141.R.1244
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2023
- Firing-up one of the last European steel giants - an oil burning 1946 "Mikado" 141.R.1244 steam locomotive which was comissioned and used by the French State Railways - SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français). The cold start of such a huge, oil burning machine is quite elaborate and also includes the use of a second, external steam engine to preheat the oil to make it less viscous so that it can be properly ignited. Once the oil burner is on, it takes hours to build up the steam pressure needed. A truly fascinating machine of the olden days!
The Swiss "Mikado 1244" association was founded in Zurich in 1975 with the purpose of buying, transfering and maintaining this Canadian-built steam locomotive 141.R.1244. At that time, the steam locomotive had reached the end of its service with the SNCF and had already been taken out of service. After a comprehensive restoration, the association received permission from the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 1977 to operate the steam locomotive on the standard gauge network. The Mikado 141.R.1244 is nowadys domiciled in the Swiss railhub-town of Brugg (Canton Aargau).
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Superbe vidéo de cette séance d'allumage !
En France, pour la 141R840 basée à Orléans, nous utilisons un fougon générateur de vapeur chauffé actuellement au gazoil pour réchauffer le fuel lourd du tender.
Nous partageons les mêmes gestes techniques.
La montée en pression de la locomotive doit se faire très lentement pour éviter les chocs thermiques sur la chaudière et le briquetage du foyer.
Par contre, désormais, nous utilisons du biofuel issu de résine de pin : un peu plus cher, même contrainte de préchauffage, même pouvoir calorifique, MAIS plus besoin de ramonage et réduction très importante de pollution CO2; en plus, l'odeur à l'échappement sent la forêt !
Vivement un rapprochement de ces deux machines à la frontière franco-suisse !
Merci beaucoup pour les excellents retours et salutations de la Suisse à la France ! 😊
Elle n’a probablement jamais été aussi propre de toute sa carrière !
Ces machines étaient des bêtes de somme, utilisées en banalité par les équipes de conduite, qui ne les entretenaient pas, comme le faisaient les équipes ayant une machine attitrée, ces tâches étant assurées par des personnels dédiés.
What I saw from another video about this engine, is that they use a external boiler in a wagon to heat the oil. Also they use the steam to circulate the water and heat it up so the boiler has minimal stress when the burner goes on. Somehow I didn’t see it in this video.
That is correct - to start the big Mikado and external "device" is used. In this particular case and to pre-heat the oil so that the big Mikado 141.rR1244 could be fired-up, they were using the coal-fired SBB E 3/3 No. 8512 from 1911 with the nickname "Tigerli". The E 3/3 is located just behind the riveted oil-tender. 5:52 shows the oil temperature in degrees Celsius, prior of firing up the engine. 16:37 then shows the oil temperature gauge again after having fired-up 141.R.1244. The "Tigerli" steam locomotive is shown at various points throughout the whole video, e.g. 9:20, just before the Mikado is being fired-up. :-)
@@hu3raumI saw her, but there is a device for the boiler to circulate that i missed. Nevertheless, still a beautiful video and it shows how dependend heavy oil burners are from steam or a heatingsource to get started. The boiler in the waggon was fired with light heating oil i believe. Is Tigerli still coal fired?
I like the massive mobilephoneholder next the Controller 😅
yes the Tigerli is coal fired@@niels6101
The ''Heizwagen'' as we call it, is only used for the initial heating of the bunker oil to 70C - 90C, once the loco is warm she feeds steam through a series of heater pipes that runt hrought he Bunker tank. you may have seen her a day after the initial warm up, usually you can still get her going if shes been sitting for less than 24 hours with no fire @@niels6101
So beautiful😍
Thank you! 😊
Me gusta las locomotoras de ♨️
We have mainline steam here in the states but I think Europe does it a bit better than America, France has an apperciation for historical stuff more so than anyone in the US could think of
European mikado.
Dommage qu'elle soit chauffée au fuel . Une charbonnière a plus de charme .
C'est mieux que rien!
Es fehlt der Kommentar mit den Erklärungen, was zu sehen ist und was die Leute hier so alles tun ! Mit Gruss Rudolf Hürlimann, Mitglied vom Verein Mikado
Hoi Rolf, wenn Du spezifischen Input hast nehme ich diesen gerne in die Beschreibung auf, umso mehr wenn dieser von einer Fachkundigen Person wie von einem Vereinsmitglied kommt! 😊