How It's Made - Locomotives

Discovery and Science Channel's How It's Made Locomotives episode.
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[@brianhenderson9470]

My father designed, and sold locomotives for 36 years for General Electric. he was a genius.

[@golfberg1]

Wasn't he with Alco ?

[@NortOfficial]

Then answer me this please, why the hell is a north american locomotive designed so diffent to the Europeans, ours are square, american are not

[@jaylenjackson2403]

@@NortOfficialFr I won’t lie some of your fright locos look pretty cool, but others just look strange - as they’re pretty much just a giant a box 😭 I love my American locomotives 🤩

[@RickJando]

I am in awe of the engineers that actually design and build those massive loco motors.

[@mikelowery5741]

I still scratch my head as to how they have 3 1/2 mile long trains! It’s amazing how much these locomotives can pull n the amount of power they create!

[@Wooburnmusic]

@@mikelowery5741 They almost move half of America in one go eh mike !

[@DistanceNsVeterans]

​@@mikelowery5741 it's because American locomotives are built more heavier and taller than most locomotives ik tbeh world, for example.. Compare a amrican ES44AC that's 16,1 And a British class 59 thats 12ft tall, The American one is (obviously) taller than the British, because America is such a big continent, The locomotives done here has to be more larger and heavyer to cover far distances, which allowes them to pull tons, This was a thing with steam locomotives too, that's why the big boy(the world largest steam locomotive) is what it is now, If you we re to try to put a American locomotive on the British loading gauge, it won't fit and it would cause the rails to sink in.

[@christianlipinski3223]

This particular segment of this episode was filmed at EMD's London, Ontario plant, which closed back in 2012. It depicts the production of CN SD70M-2s and was filmed sometime in 2009-2010. I actually remember the first time I ever saw this episode.

[@WingIdRat]

I work at the london plant, today I was offloading I beams from gondola cars in the western highbay ( the bay in the video) my dad worked here for 26 years.

[@aydanborbely331]

Wow, can’t believe this only takes them 5 minutes.. amazing what technology can do🤯🤩

[@DamacusSquared]

😂😂😂

[@TyDeSimone]

Funny because these things take like months to make

[@SilasWasHere]

@@TyDeSimone funny you don’t get the joke

[@llluuuyyyooo]

LMAOO ..and amazing how they achieve the full build and not losing any focus with that woman talking there. 😂

[@FrostyAUT]

"750 HP, 3 times more than a typical car." What? The typical American car has 250 HP?

[@josephastier7421]

I'm guessing this was uploaded to KZbin around 1968 or so.

[@jakeanthony7672]

Joseph Astier I’m taking one for the team KZbin was made in 2005

[@PFAlt]

avg yes. The people who go mad with hp bring up the average. Typical? Naw. Most guys got compact cars or compact suvs with 110-150 and 130-200hp respectively today. Back when this was filmed, even less, 10 to 20 less.

[@user-vi4tx8ys9t]

I dbout it

[@paddydu5113]

Yes

[@bagnome]

lol. That SD70 behind those class 66's. Just peeking out behind them as if it were playing peek-a-boo.

[@Jag-Soft]

genius of filming when they show a completely different train at the end instead of the one they were showing being built.. lol

[@mrgone658]

People who work in media believe in their own self-delusional measure of superior intelligence, when more often than not they prove the opposite.

[@tonythomas7511]

They didnt make a train. They made a LOCOMOTIVE

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

robert retka Get off the stage.

[@riproar11]

I had a major WTF moment at the end.

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

When you weld something wrong but you had a have a video

[@danepittman1383]

Love how they show the engine that they said was different from the one they showed them building

[@samsngdevice5103]

Stupid comment.

[@amtrakisveryepic]

@@samsngdevice5103 Bro you replied to a 7 year old comment stfu with your "stupid comment" b.s. lmfao

[@beringstraitrailway]

Sarcasm detected!

[@0kh0b07]

@@amtrakisveryepic get over yourself

[@jennifergodin67]

I work at one of their plants. It's an awesome job

[@Engineer9736]

This video made my KZbin-day. Very nice to see how these locs are build up.

[@richardjayasinghe7238]

Thank you sir for vedio. Thank you your effort to forward this. Now Railway torn her dark veil. 29 years in Locomotive driving Ceylon Government Railway (CGR) { Sri Lanka Railways}. I salute to you for this wonderful work. Thank you.

[@joegardiner4220]

I cant help but think how strong the steel that the crane runs off must be.

[@lightskinche]

i like how it ends before she stops talking XD

[@adrianneils2727]

Electromotive Division's or GE's EMD technical term for the engine is a Prime Mover. They can be ordered with what spec's the Railroad wants. Only prototypes come by EMD's choice. More railroads are also going away from the DC power converter, AC traction motors do better at low speeds and are easier to maintain.

[@adrianneils2727]

Usually, short haul trains, by tonnage have 1 or 2 loco possibly of different class, but take a train 2 or more miles pulling straight tonnage for over 1,000 miles and the train could have 1-8 locos on point and still have 1 intermediate and 1-2 pushers. It all goes by tonnage and terrain. Here in the midwest, most trains can only be 2 miles long. Out west, it's a whole different game. They have mountains.

[@Ben31337l]

Well, you have problems with coupler strength. Too much power and you will overwhelm the couplers breaking them.

[@kennethtomaszewski3795]

Fuzzy mountains

[@dwrjr27]

It blows my mind that people learned how to program and build machines specifically for building a particular product like this. People create machines to build or manufacture almost anything the imagination can come up with.

[@rodrigoevangelista85]

Thank you very much! more please!

[@tsgmultimedia]

There's a fair amount of questionable "information" in this program.

[@503railfan]

Yeah and also they show complete different locomotives at the end of the program then they were building. Stock footage woo....

[@howlingwolven]

Not everyone's a foamer.

[@KUPHSER]

whats a good loco doco for me to watch? im going through a phase at the moment i want the good stuff

[@richardaitkenhead]

"How it works" is aimed at primary school education and the intelligent level of unemployed sofa surfers of similar iq, Works well for what its intended.

[@SouthJerseyRailfan]

@@howlingwolven how does that matter

[@NPminnetonka]

SD70ace!

[@jonathanlarathetrainguy7788]

LOL

[@oxolotleman7226]

Actually that's an sd70m-2

[@railfanner3764]

Hey guys,its craftyfoxe!

[@DeathValleyDazed]

Trains powering by never grow old as a sensation of awe.

[@asafegous]

You're telling me the only reason a choo-choo has a combustion engine is to produce electricity? Mind. Blown.

[@oron61]

America has wider tracks? I don't think so. The US uses standard gauge, while the Russian, Irish, Iberian, and Indian railroads are wider.

[@DistanceNsVeterans]

However locomotives at heights, America and Russia has far larger locomotives Designs. Both having 16ft and 17ft.

[@yotsuball]

I LOVE THESE THINGS

[@Imintune...]

Made at the former g m plant London

[@AwesomeDesertTrains]

no we them here in the us cuz there are us locomotives

[@billmorris2613]

The locomotive they were building can pull a lot more than 480 metric tons. More like 9,000 American tons on flat ground. An SD-40 with its 3,000 horsepower can pull a little over 7,000 American tons on flat ground. It can also run around 50 MPH while pulling 3,000 American tons. The engine they were building can probably run 50 MPH with 4,500 American tons on flat ground. Generally 1 horsepower per American ton can run 50 MPH on flat ground.

[@gravelydon7072]

You have to forgive them Bill, they have no concept of that kind of weight in a European train. And they have no clue as to how long our trains are. @ locos on a train? Try 4 on the front, one or two in the middle, and another one or two on the rear. All controlled by the engineer in the cab of the lead loco.

[@Ben31337l]

@@gravelydon7072 the DDA40X could haul a train single handedly!

[@gravelydon7072]

@@Ben31337l DDA40Xs often ran with a smaller unit or two. Two smaller units of today out perform one DDA40X. And they don't act as track straighteners.

[@Ben31337l]

@@gravelydon7072 Well, that's because the DDA40X was built using 2 SD40s. Also, the fact that you claim they were 'track straighteners' si interesting since the wheelbase between the first and last wheels should be smaller than the wheelbase cound on a regular steam locomotive. Unless the DDA40X weren't equipped with flangeless wheelsets.

[@gravelydon7072]

@@Ben31337l All wheels on the DD35s and the DDA40Xs were flanged.

[@CrazyPetez]

It would be nice if you included American Freedom Units ( inches, feet, miles, etc.), instead of just metric.

[@privateerbouncher9622]

That time were How It's Made was worth watching.

[@robertbowman3406]

The reason for a diesel unit/s, called DPU or Distributed Power Unit, to be on the back of a train is for added pushing power and more braking when needed. It also is less wear and tear on the rail head. It gives the engineer a good feeling to know that he has that extra power on the end of his train when needed.

[@ats6136]

The fuel tank size is immense!

[@DistanceNsVeterans]

Yep that America for you

[@Garlic227]

they're beautiful!

[@hansknutson2327]

I would have never guessed it Until you told me how it works

[@tracynation239]

An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.

[@davidney2412]

BOY OH BOY SHE TRULY REALLY TRULY DOES HAVE A FANTASTIC SOUNDING VOICE .

[@Unessecary_windows_experiments]

teacher: " no building Electro Motive Division's SD70ACE-T4 locomotives in the back " kids in the back:

[@stansaju4392]

Amazing Hard work 😍

[@Max-Television]

The US actually use 1435.1 mm gauge, one of only two countries (Finland) to retain imperial units for railways. It is therefor 0.1 mm broader than in most countries.

[@algrayson8965]

0.1 mm (0.04") is meaningless to a railway track gage.

[@victoriousrufus6747]

Indian Railways track width is 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge!

[@Max-Television]

@@algrayson8965 Meaningsless as it is, that's still how they do it.

[@justinhoyt3036]

@Robin Andreasson, you need to change your settings so people can reply to your posts. Anyway "fuel driven" locomotives are also electric, the diesel engine being a generator, not actually directly powering the locomotive. They can't use a pure electric system for freight in the US or other large countries due to just that, the size and remoteness of the rail systems.

[@RickJando]

A really good and interesting video, thank you.

[@kristiefeldman2684]

Great job you guys

[@JohnMuise]

Yay! I run those :D

[@lorenzobeckmann3736]

I didn't hav the strong "tongue" when changing/inserting traction motor fields. Setting brushholders also fun

[@muhammadzulfadzlihajimatal8833]

Passenger train locomotives include EMD F3s, EMD F7s and EMD F9s. Freight train locomotives include JNR Class DF50s.

[@glenpower1677]

And FP7, FP9 GP40P F40PH'S.

[@nicholaslokos7949]

also EMD SD40, EMD SD40-2, EMD SD70, EMD SD75, GE AC4400, GE AC6000, etc

[@CoCojoy420]

Damn interesting!

[@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569]

I miss these shows from Discovery

[@panikumarkr127]

Wow...amazing work I love locomotive engines 😍😘👍😎

[@joekrim6557]

awesome video. straight to the point without the distractions due to unintelligable content developers...

[@zagi988zap]

Great video!

[@bffs4lifeliz]

Nice job, _How It's Made_!!!

[@frankmosch877]

They make it look so easy course they have all the right tool,s and equipment, pretty neat/cool process!!! 🚆🛤️😐😐...FWM...

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

Not anymore....that plant shut down

[@bestamerica]

' train company should making strong alloy aluminum on the locomotive trains and trailers

[@METX210]

What a very informative video. I love it!

[@madwilli3205]

is there a how it's made for the automated welder and strong press?

[@sudathdevanarayana3416]

Thank you for the nice explanation

[@KaciCooperations]

I heard a New Amtrak Train well make it today!

[@capricornkingonline5397]

I love that as she is busy talking it ends

[@railroadhistoryarchives]

Awww yes, the GE SD-HEAVY HAUL-ACe

[@pokemonpreadythepokemonmaniac]

Most of the world uses standard gauge (4 feet 8.5 inches/1.435 meters), some countries use broad gauge (>4 ft 8.5 in/>1.435 m), and some use narrow gauge (

[@BruceBoschek]

There is more wrong information in this video than in most on KZbin and that is saying something. The footage is nice, however.

[@joekrim6557]

an explanarion to your corrections would make your arguement valid. until then, video was accurate and concise.

[@aaronsegal6052]

Train locomotives are small and insignifcant. Wow, train locomotives are significantly larger than I'd've thought.

[@dg-if8gx]

what is welding process name used for pivot pin.

[@trailwayt9H337]

Thankyou for giving this different of view for experience of this information 😍 👍👍

[@homeandelectronicsstop1599]

very enlightening

[@waynehawkins2157]

Great info👍👍👍👍

[@kelvinmallory4101]

I Love Trains be it freight or passenger

[@nicholaslokos7949]

what other kinds of trains are there?...

[@aydanborbely331]

2021 and I still wonder

[@NPTNReddek]

They made my idea into a reality, YES

[@rottenroads1982]

It's crazy to think how Huge American Locomotives are compared to UK and other similar locomotives.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

I've been to g.e. s plant in Erie pa,many times and have been thur there trying to deliver 1 piece 1 time I seen everything.

[@daywalker________7677]

Does anyone happen to know the torque specs for the D100 traction motor wheel mounting bolts? 840 ftLB? 900 ftLB? Or something else?

[@TheAdamRides]

The term "bogie" is only used in Europe and other countries besides Canada and the U.S. In North America it is a "truck", as in a truck frame assembly that the traction motor combos ride in.

[@SGuySMW]

I see some CN locomotives! One sole ES44DC And an SD75I leading an SD70

[@splengey]

its funny how in the states 250 horsepower is a "regular car" where in europe a regular car is prob anywhere from 50-200 horsepower, 200 being a pretty fast car

[@rclendening]

But they didn’t show them converting it to DCC 😜

[@BNSF4749Railfan]

I can picture them using a DCC controller

[@kdmq]

The narrator is pretty swag if her idea of a "typical car" is 250 HP hahaha!

[@TheRealLucifer-Morningstar]

awesome train video i thought that you could not find this on youtube thanks

[@ShanHFernandes]

20000 litres fuel tank ! Here in India just 6000 litres on 4500 HP locomotives .

[@livingpiano]

Shan H Fernandes The US has plenty of oil from the middle east , as they say, y not flaunt it when u got it !!!! but in under a decade or so when the dollar gets de-linked from the oil trade , they will switch over to electrics completely ...like the rest of us

[@xxgolddoesmcxx]

Harsha Jade I'm excited for Electric Trains, adds an extra track on the rails and stops people from walking on them! If they touch them, they are dead.. Electric Locomotives are quiter and faster anyways, which will be good for the economy and the ecosystem.

[@CST1992]

+xXGoldDoesMCXx Seems all electric trains you've seen are subways. There are other ways of conducting electricity to the train, too.

[@immortalwarrior2695]

+Corey Williams Dude Indian tracks are 18% more wider than American ones. Don't listen to that lady

[@kittuete]

Goddamn! You Indians have crazy locomotives!

[@swiftengine]

"locomotives pulling mail are n=bigger and stronger" Me: thinks of percy the small engine

[@javikelly8502]

TrainStation! Ya

[@sudarshanchaudhary5204]

Excelent workings

[@truthseekeryouri]

wait what, 750 horse power ''3 times more then a typical car''? typical cars have like 70-100 horse power right??? 750 is 8/10x more power.

[@algrayson8965]

Ford Fiesta DOHC Hemi 1.6 - 120 HP.

[@caelanreeves9760]

Did anyone else see that sick consist at 0:29?!!! IC hell yea!

[@All_Noing]

U.P. railfan IC Junk!!!!!!!!!

[@caelanreeves9760]

Come on man, do you even know what IC stands for?

[@All_Noing]

No, I have no idea. I've only worked for CN (WC) in Stevens Point, WI for nine years as a locomotive engineer. Tell me, what does it mean! Illinois Crap? Inflamed Colon?

[@caelanreeves9760]

Come on man why do you have to be rude like that? Illinois central is a "still in operation" railroad but CN gained control of them in 1998 but it's CN owned IC operated, it's kinda complicated but they don't have a lot of locomotives left so it's cool to some one everyone in a while! I'm surprised you didn't even know what it was! After all you do work for CN!

[@All_Noing]

Of course I know what IC means. I had the POS IC 1007 in my consist yesterday, along with the POS CN 2446 in the lead. I worked for the IC thug, E. Harrison Hunter. I know what IC means. Jeez, dude.

[@brianlee5649]

Nowadays, there's no more steam trains, only diesel-electric now. I miss the good old days of steam trains now. Now wherever I go, there's not a single steam train in my state now, only diesel.

[@blackham7]

How are subway trains made?

[@oregonrailfan7046]

Brian Lee what state do you live in that doesn't have a single steam locomotive?

[@DistanceNsVeterans]

Steam locomotives are still around but they wer preserved, most of them ar even but there may be still some out there, And the good thing is the PRR T1 is being built from ground up

[@user-in2my1sx2q]

nice job

[@TheGhostkill13]

Cool video

[@MichaelRubenGonzalez]

Cool beans! I'm questioning about the SD70ACE's horsepower...

[@irasthewarrior]

Thank you for explaining it using the metric system, it makes sense now :D

[@frankmosch877]

The three axil freight trucks there using on the SD,s are the H,T,C,R radial truck Wich will actually steer into the curves so they can negotiate tighter radious,s lot less wheel and track wear. 😐🛤️🚆..

[@robnewman6101]

This is like looking at the Future.

[@hallieg3926]

the one you built is a emd built sd70ace diesel locomotive

[@manderschannel2275]

Amen!

[@michaelglass4701]

awesome

[@irasthewarrior]

North America has standard gauge which is found in Europe, China, Australia, etc, except for Russia which uses broad gauge (wider gauge). The female voice is annoying...

[@Magnus44711URI]

Here in UK and IRL it's narrated by Tony Hirst, who has a much better voice :)

[@ToolinAround]

goagăl minus in soviet america, train drives you..

[@adrianneils2727]

The former Soviet Union rail system has the largest and heaviest equipment in all the world. Everything has to be double in height and strength.

[@pradeepsharma_1962]

In India also we use broad gauge which is 5 feet 6 inches and is broader than American standard gauge 4 feet 8 1/2 inches . Passenger trains have in general about 24 to 25 coaches the length of train is in excess of 600 metre.

[@Magnus44711URI]

Also, here in Ireland, track gauge is 5 foot 3 in, which is also found in Australia and Brazil.

[@DatTrainGuyProductions]

GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. 1. THE EMD SD70ACe IS 4300 HP, NOT 4500. 2. TRUCKS, NOT BOGIES

[@grumpyg9350]

It's just a simple show. Stop complaining about the content. Holy cow people.

[@jamtuazon5216]

Foamers will be foamers unfortunately

[@railpast]

Stealing Discovery videos and blocking their name is not exactly legal. :-(

[@SuperBuildsInMC]

But he disclaims that the video is from the Discovery Channel in the description

[@ivrgn1720]

Your car have 900 horse power? that's cute.

[@nicholaslokos7949]

cars that get 900HP are ridiculously expensive... my Mom's Toyota Yaris gets about 100HP ,_, I want a Challenger Demon someday... maybe get to ride in the cab of a GE AC6000 ,_,

[@joekrim6557]

i could spend a lifetime assembling locomorives

[@elliotcapson3101]

10,000 amps huh?

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

Your welcome. I suggested they do this one episode in 2008