Fairbanks Morse On Freight in '98!

Bluegrass Railroad Museum Fairbanks Morse H12-44 1849 is on loan to the Lexington & Ohio Railway on this date January 16, 1998. Here it is seen at Pisgah Station and Elkchester east of Versailles, Kentucky. Today the former US Army locomotive resides at the museum in Versailles and as of 2018, not in operation.
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[@WAL_DC-6B]

"DAG-NAB-IT! I wanted to hear the sound of a Fairbanks Morse locomotive going by and not the darn horn!

[@MyVideos-fm7ug]

That horn sounds awesome. That engine doesn’t seem to have much ass behind it. Otherwise, we would have been able to hear it

[@philburrows6036]

If you set up a camera near a grade crossing , you are going to get a train horn interrupt the engine sound I suppose

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@philburrows6036 This is also true for some of my videos uploaded to KZbin.

[@BurtonSKnowles]

Absolutely LOVE older shoreline videos! The jointed rail, the rocking cars, the older locomotives. Fantastic!

[@MilePost106]

Just seeing and hearing these old locomotives puts a smile on my face!

[@realtoytrains]

That thing is burning more coolant than fuel!!! Cool video 😊

[@Not1Edit]

If that was coolant it wouldn't be on the road, it's a stuck fuel injector, & if He notches up He'll have 8 feet of fire out the stack

[@Yosemite-George-61]

Fuel burns black, that should be oil...@@Not1Edit

[@Yosemite-George-61]

Most diesel locos do not use coolant, they use water... look it up.

[@Not1Edit]

Fuel burns white when overfueling a dead cylinder, how long You been a diesel fuel systems tech sonny?@@Yosemite-George-61

[@dimitrilensflareabrams2893]

It seems like Fairbanks and Morse turned in a boat into a locomotive.

[@camsmith7651]

Love that belching diesel exhaust

[@bradford9129]

Look at that thing smoking! I’ve heard those opposed piston engines were pretty cantankerous. Still, I just love the look of the h10-44’s.

[@Wingnut353]

Perhaps... Fairbanks morse still makes OP engines and they are installed in high reliability applications like hospital generators etc... probably the biggest problem on the old engines is oil consumption and it being mechanical injection which are not issues on modern engines since we have figured out how to deal with those issues.

[@blockstacker5614]

@@Wingnut353 the fairbanks morse opposed piston engine actually has no mechanical valves. The intake and exhaust ports are open and closed by the piston itself.

[@blockstacker5614]

The big disadvantage is that it is a 2 stroke, so total loss oiling system. And that is a ton of oil. Makes a nice cloud of smoke though!

[@pootispiker2866]

@@blockstacker5614 GM and EMD 2 stroke engines do not burn their lubricating oil as part of the combustion cycle.

[@DuckNuts1223]

@@pootispiker2866 this video would say otherwise…

[@charlesgwyn2115]

She's a rockin' down the rails!

[@user-xy1lp8jx2h]

😂I always liked fairbanks morse locomotives. I remembered years ago back in the 1960s the new haven RR had some FM H16-44 diesels. When one of these locomotives was idleing for some time and was throttled up they always produced a cloud of white smoke.

[@alcopower5710]

Those cars are rocking and rolling

[@LotusbandicootRR]

I don't know why but I don't think there's a more fitting horn for it than an M3

[@trailingrails9953]

Is it still really an M3 if it's missing the #3 bell?

[@SynchroScore]

Are you sure that's not a Navy locomotive, because you could hide a destroyer behind that smokescreen.

[@MrOlgrumpy]

1.26 well thats fogged the skeeters

[@TofsrudCubing]

Poppys Bench 1:26 it really did

[@canadianpacificstudios5835]

That is one eerie horn!

[@rihel]

Incredibly the beautiful Nathan M3-1R2 Horn, is just like live again my very much beloved Ferrocarril del Pacifico Alcos RSD-5 In Mexico.

[@mononproductions6226]

Amazing video!

[@eddieweigel9490]

Unburned diesel that thing has injector problems white smoke

[@johndeere772002]

Not sure what’s worse for wear - those tracks or the locomotive...

[@mikewolf7288]

That diesel smokes like a steam train!

[@ramblinman4197]

Beautiful. I wonder if it is still in service.

[@Simo-nk1oq]

Great video, looks like old stick rail too.

[@erikthepirate8068]

I Love H12-44 Diesel Locomotive!

[@winkelmannchannel971]

That is awesome

[@JohnPatterson-kz8jr]

Well,FM did build engines for the Navy in WW2.😮😊

[@richardschindler8822]

There hasn’t been a mosquito in that area for years

[@Not1Edit]

No Defects! Lmao on that stuck injector.

[@indyrat500]

White smoke from a diesel is usually a sign of a blown turbocharger.

[@K8DTI]

H12-44's do not have turbochargers.

[@alexilauto1419]

Yes... Also this engine suffered a short circuit upon entering a yard not too long after the date of this video.

[@rogertycholiz2218]

Correct - the 2-stroke diesels were supercharged (Rootes blower). No turbochargers.

[@jacquesblaque7728]

@@rogertycholiz2218 No, they're not "supercharged", rather mechanically scavenged. Different stuff.

[@Wingnut353]

@@jacquesblaque7728 Same stuff... different purpose. The smaller Detroit blowers are literally the superchargers used on big block auto engines.

[@arthurerdman37]

The horn drowned out the engine sound.

[@K8DTI]

Check out the cab ride video.

[@skyraiderjet]

@@K8DTI That mechanic that rode with the engine in the cab ride video is he still around?

[@MyVideos-fm7ug]

That horn sounds great

[@samschaeffer8236]

I thought only ALCOs smoked that bad!

[@rihel]

Can you tell me which horn is it, please? It sounds pretty close to those used by Mexico's Ferrocarril del Pacifico Alcos RSD-5 and RSD-11. Could anybody can tell me which horns are those?

[@TrainTrackTrav]

Nathan M3.

[@MrBNARick]

Those OP's are filthy

[@jacquesblaque7728]

No, THAT FM is filthy, giving diesels a bad name. Huge amount of unburnt fuel there.

[@Wingnut353]

OP engines when properly maintained are the cleanest diesels bar none. Fairbanks still makes OP engines and they are some of the best made. The fact that this engine is so poorly maintained and its still going .. are a testament to how robust that engine is.

[@MrCarrizojim]

Looks a little blown up. Better check the oil!

[@tonyperone3242]

An old mosquito killer.

[@floridianrailauto9032]

Looks like a combine razor train

[@Shane-Singleton]

I suddenly had an urge to grab a crowbar.

[@floridianrailauto9032]

*ANTI CITIZEN ONE* @@Shane-Singleton

[@Shane-Singleton]

@@floridianrailauto9032 Hehe.. Ahh the good old days of the "Free Man". I wish they'd make a HL2: Ep3. They just need to finish the story.

[@floridianrailauto9032]

@@Shane-Singleton They'd probably end Episode 3 on a cliff hanger like the other Half Life games

[@artmchugh5644]

Freight hauling and mosquito fog !!!!! Brilliant!!!!😀😀😀😀🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@BenjaminEsposti]

Wow, it looks to be in very poor condition. :(

[@alexilauto1419]

Yep.... Only for it to become worse. Not to long after this video was made, the darn thing fried its generators entering an uphill yard, thus ending its life.... at least for a very long time now.

[@War1109]

@@alexilauto1419 the person who rewired it did it wrong and it ran with shorted wires and the generator finally died

[@elonmust7470]

@@War1109 well that sucks!

[@Wingnut353]

Yeah the white exhaust would be coolant I imagine... if it were unburnt fuel it would be black.

[@ericl2969]

@@Wingnut353 Could it be oil smoke? I think I remember seeing a bluish-white smoke when these things were getting on in years. It's hard to imagine running that much coolant water through the engine and not doing something to fix the problem, but that's just my guess.

[@fiddlyphuk6414]

A new Pope has been elected.

[@hughjarse4627]

She’s a bit tired.

[@tonyperone3242]

But the old girl has some life left in her.

[@Wingnut353]

@@tonyperone3242 another guy said they wired up the gensets backwards and fried it... so yeah its dead for now.

[@War1109]

Why is it just constant smoke

[@rogertycholiz2218]

Old & worn out. Usually the 2-stroke blown engines were very clean - no smoke except at cold start.

[@russhaper1705]

Probably just came out of the yard and was at idle or a lower RPM for a while. FMs were designed to be run hard. They load up bad at 350-360 rpm, idle, but once you get them kicked up, 600+rpm, they burn out the excess fuel(and more than likely oil) and happily chug away burning cleanly. My company still use a pair of them in a shift tugboat in Alabama. We have to push into the hill every day and run them to the governor for and hour or so just to get them to burn off the fuel from idling during shift work.

[@Wingnut353]

@@russhaper1705 That would be black though... this looks more like burning coolant so maybe it has a bad head.

[@Mercmad]

@@Wingnut353 No head. the pistons face each other.one bank up top,one on the bottom. So when the pistns move towards each other to create the heat,from comprssing the air charge,there is no head to leak. It looks like unburnt fuel ,having served my apprenticeship on big diesels ,I've seen ship blow smoke like that when an injector sticks. too much fuel,and not enough air. Another couple of opposed engines were the Commer TS3 truck engine,6 pistons ,three cylinders and the Napier deltic. these were 9 and 18 cylinder OP engines with the banks arranged in a Delta formation.

[@robertm3cl]

liberal tears