Nevada Northern Railway Company Diesel Train Experience - EMD SD-9 (by GM) - Ely, Nevada - June 2022

[@nikdog419]

13:34 The lever on the right is the hand throttle directly connected to the injection pump.

[@agraygoat]

That's really awesome. Thanks for the info. It was a really cool experience and I just wanted to document it to share with others. I definitely wish that I could have spent more time around the locomotive because I love mechanical stuff. Did you work on trains before?

[@FreihEitner]

21:07 - no inclinometer, they had no inclination to add one. Nice video; good to see the whole process from startup to running, with braking best practices bell/horn rules. Thank you for sharing this whole thing and not just a "best of" cut.

[@agraygoat]

Thanks. It was a lot of fun and I wanted to try to best record the entire experience of what it was like to do everything, "boring" or not.

[@TrainboyRR]

I love the video

[@jcl410]

I loved watching this. When I read the title I assumed when you said "stalled", you meant that the locomotive didn't have enough power to keep going up hill, not that you killed the engine!

[@agraygoat]

I'm glad that you enjoyed it. It was really fun. Off-topic, but I just learned that the Nevada Northern Railway will be re-expanding their tracks to go to the White Pine Public Museum (they had the tracks go through there before). I think this group does some pretty cool stuff.

[@GR10Productions]

On older emd’s if you push the throttle all the way in pass idle that’ll kill the engine.

[@agraygoat]

Good information to know. We were stumped for a bit when it stalled.

[@JFinnerud]

I think you did good for being the first time and you shouldn't blame yourself for stalling the train. You ask the right questions and focus on getting your head around speed and brake control.

[@agraygoat]

Haha, thanks. It was a really fun experience and everyone was really easy-going. If you ever get a chance to operate one, you definitely should.

[@gordonvincent731]

Former SP 4426. I don't know the as built by EMD original number.

[@FelicianaDelacruz]

4426 was originally built as 5468 and renumbered in 1965 to 3942 during the system wide renumbering and went through the GRIP program in June of 1977 emerging as 4426.

[@gordonvincent731]

@@FelicianaDelacruz Great, thanks.

[@railroadenthusiast6246]

Normally a real train engineer keeps the horn blowing through the double crossing. As your doing the last long.

[@agraygoat]

I remember them mentioning that my horn was too short.

[@2quintly]

Poor kid, better stick to a cell phone, . . . .

[@Xander-m1w]

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[@noahengelhardt3596]

What?

[@stanfischer6175]

No, I don't think so. Whoever posted this video my hat is off to him as he now knows more about operating a first generation diesel than what I do. I'm senior citizen and looked at pictures of trains before I could read as I liked them so much. Stupid is forever but ignorance can be fixed.

[@Davidwilson-fq7jf]

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