Rolls-Royce | How train engines work

Take a journey through the inner workings of a Series 4000 rail engine. Find out more about the technologies that make MTU diesel engines clean and efficient.

Rolls-Royce is a pre-eminent engineering company focused on world-class power and propulsion systems.

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[TryAdaptLearn]

Good insight and description of the inside of a turbocharged Diesel engine.

[WideWorldofTrains]

Similar to GE Tier 4 Locomotive prime mover engines

[TheBoostedDoge]

Gon' put one of these things in me car

[BritishRail]

I would love to see MTU fit one of these power packs into the UK Class 60 Diesel Locomotives. I would use MTU if I owned one of those locomotives.

[dc]

A twin-turbo train? Pretty cool! Does it make that "PSSSHHHT" wastegate noise? 😂

[BUNCHofxs]

Now gut that huge muffler and reroute the exhaust recirculation pipes up and out. Might as well throw on a nice chrome tip to. Now you have a nice engine.

[Carstuff]

A properly tuned diesel does not need a particulate filter, a slightly lean mixture helps with that. Particulate filters just make you burn more fuel, to burn off the products of burning too much fuel for a given power output.... Ugh.

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hold on, matey is saying that they don't have particulate filters as of 2017!
What the hell, he talks about it and specifically says they will have these technologies in the future
Boggles the mind

[davidhutton]

Don't know what RR had to do with that?? Looked like MTUs own work...

[greghelms]

I can see a train stopping to do a parked regen. 😝😝😝

[fins]

What has this video about MTU got to do with Rolls Royce?

[_multiverse_]

You're running 15 psi? Bruh...I'm running 75psi.

[AlarakTheHighLord]

It's a diesel why is it showing a spark plug igniting?

[goodtutt]

Please explain the sounds heard on this video. The music has nothing to do with subject matter! It's OBNOXIOUS !! WTF?

[richardgrant]

Not clear, far too flowery, needs a simpler more straightfoward explanation - surprised RR put their name on this

[Nox]

Brag as much as they want trying to make this sound somehow modern and high tech, but at the end of the day, it's just a fucking internal combustion engine... Plain obsolete shit.