The PSRM : Starting the 70 Tonner HD
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2011
- Watch in High Definition. In July, 2011, the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum received its newest addition to the fleet, a General Electric 70 Tonner locomotive. The locomotive played a major role in San Diego History. Built in 1955, the locomotive was originally a Southern Pacific locomotive. It was numbered SP 5119 and wore the Southern Pacific Tiger Stripe paint scheme. While it never served the Campo area, it served in the San Diego region of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway through downtown San Diego, El Cajon, Lemon Grove, La Mesa and Chula Vista. It was retired from SP in 1967 and resold to GE. It changed hands several times in the years after that. In 2005, it was sold to the Modesto and Empire Traction Railway. There, it was repainted into M&ET colors and renumbered 613. It was retired in 2008 and sold to Sterling Rail Inc. in 2010. In June 2011, the PSRM purchased the locomotive and trucked it into Campo on a lowbed truck in July. The locomotive has a Cooper-Bessemer FWL-6T, 6 cyl. inline, 600 h.p. engine. 70 Tonners are very unique locomotives and can only be MU'd with other 70 Tonner locomotives. The locomotive is not yet in service pulling museum trains, however it did run as a trailing unit in mid October, 2011 along with the 80 Tonner when the museum had a 6 car train. The plans are to repaint the locomotive into SP colors, renumber it back to 5119, replace the original hand rails, and make a few minor repairs here and there. Other than that, the locomotive is in perfect operating condition!
More information on the Museum, the Museum's fleet, as well as ticket sales can be found at www.psrm.org/.
This Video Shows the full startup sequence of a GE 70 Ton Locomotive. SP 5119 is a 70 Ton 1st generation diesel. It has a Cooper-Bessemer FWL-6T, 6 cyl. inline, 600 h.p. non turbo charged prime mover, a shaft driven air compressor, and is MU capable (exclusively with other 70 Tonners.)
Starting the locomotive is a bit labor intensive. First, the fuel level is checked with the fuel oil dipstick (not shown). Next, the engine and compressor oil levels are checked. Then, the engine oil pre lube pump must be operated. This is essentially a hand crank that must be pumped to build up oil pressure in the engine before starting. Next, the top engine hood access door must be lifted to allow access to the cylinders. A wrench is used to open the cylinder compression release valves (like on the GP9). The engine is then turned over a few revolutions to blow any condensation out of the cylinders. After that, the compression release valves are tightened down and the hood door closed. The engine is them primed and started using the switches in the cab. The startup is shown from on top of the cab and on the ground.
While the locomotive is far older than anything you see riding the rails on freight trains these days, you can definitely hear a stark resemblance to modern day GEs. We look forward to putting this locomotive in service!
Enjoy! 
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I currently work at M&ET and was one of the last few people trained on the 70's, started there in dec of 07. I miss those lil beasts. And watching the sparks fly was awesome at night! I slowly helped move all the 70 tonners to our transload facility to be shipped out. One remains, it has been restored and put in its own building in our yard.
Childhood video
Nice Video
When I worked for Gallo supply chain, this very engine was a regular visitor for moving box cars out of the warehouse and taking them to Empire. I took a lot of photos and most times you would see 2 to 3 working together. And that rumble as they went by our building is permanently etched in my brain. For many years the M&ET GE 70 tonner started the journey for millions of cases of wine from Modesto. I really liked the M&ET paint scheme.
The blow down sounded so satisfying
Beautiful ol' beasts.
Enjoyed this very much. Thanks for sharing it.
No, we purchased it in operating condition from Sterling Rail, which had purchased it from the Modesto and Empire Traction Company two years earlier. It has a Nathan Airchime P3 Horn.
I'm glad starting my little 5.9 liter Cummins isn't that labor-intensive. Really neat video though, thanks for making it!
Nice video. I am happy I don't have to follow the same procedure when starting my car :-)
BR
Adam
Awesome video!! It's fascinating how each type of locomotive has its own sequence to start. Thanks for posting!! 👍
Thank you very much for posting this video. There are 3 ex "M & ET" GE 70 tonner active locomotives sitting out the winter in the South Saskatchewan town of Craik.
I am looking forward to hearing their sound in the near future.
Cheers from the Canadian prairies!
Great video!
Not listed in the history of 70 tonners are the 5 built in Australia by Gonians of Newcastle. These were built for BHP steels Newcastle works. 2 are preserved
Nice! When I went on 7/14/12, It was in the Carbarn and it looks cool!
Thanks for your video on starting of this loco.
Interesting that the compression release valves weren't torqued up.
Hi from NZ,
Anthony
Love it! I might use this video next time I catch 70 or 80 left unattended again...
The railroad that I worked at in the 70's had one of these and we didn't go through that big procedure that you guys did when starting. It was started almost daily and basically we just shot some ether in it and cranked it up. Ours ran for 10 years without any major problems, and then it was sold fully operational. Guess those C-B's are tough b*******s.
NIce to hear that sound again.
wow the 70 tonner
I assume locos built recently don't require such a process to start them.
The hand cranked oil pre lube pump has been replaced by electrical pumps on modern locomotives. All locomotives are still equipped with cylinder compression release valves, but opening these for each startup is not necessary if the locomotive is in continuous daily service. Likewise, most train crews on class 1 railroads do not do extensive fluid checks before each startup since mechanical forces typically do all of these checks during the daily locomotive inspections. However, fuel priming before startup is always necessary.
She's 4 years older than me :)
My museum has an EX L&N 70 tonner #98 but it doesn't operate. did you restore yours?
THE COOPER WAS & IS A VERY RELIABLE ENGINE. THE 70 TON LOCO IN ITSELF IS A WORK OF ART!!! I HAD THE HONOR OF WORKING & OPERATING THEM FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. DUMPED ALOT OF BEET RACKS DURING THE SEASON!!! I MISS THEM DEARLY! WORKED WITH OTHER LOCOS FROM OTHER BUILDERS. THE G.E. 70 TONNER IS STILL THE BEST!!! AWESOME DRAWBAR PULLING POWER!!!!!!! THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU WITH YOUR LOCO!!!!
I don't really like the M&ET's newer Genset switchers.
the true mini FDL
p.s what horn do you have on it?
@Locomotive450 Man you should have blown the horn! That's my favorite horn of all time! Yeah we have one of two LN 70 tonners. The numbers are 99 and 98. We have 98 in unoperating condition. I wish it ran today.
Ok it runs but do it move?
Are these the precursors to the FDL?
In a sense, yes. GE was so happy with the prime mover that they purchased the design from Cooper-Bessemer. They then developed the design until it became the FDL series that we know now.
Why do you have to blow out the cylinders before starting it?
Locomotives can accumulate water in the cylinders if they are shut down and left outdoors, especially during rain. If this happens and the engine is turned over, the water can hydrolock the cylinders and damage or destroy the engine. Opening up the cylinder cocks and blowing out the cylinders by turning the engine over will get rid of any water and prevent this from happening. Because the engine in this locomotive is an irreplaceable antique, we are extremely careful with it.
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yaaaaawwwnnnn could have skipped some steps... or shortened some up.. otherwise not bad..
Richard Christnot yaaaawn why didn't you make your own video then..yaaaaaawnnnn...you are two years too late...yaaaaaawnnnnnn stop complaining it's free entertainment.....yaawwwwwnnnnnnnnn.
Quit bitching richard. Nobody likes a whiner