Detroit Diesel

[chessie4905]

How many here are familiar with this model? Someone on Facebook is selling one. Never heard of it, so looked it up.

https://oldmachinepress.com/2014/08/17/general-motors-electro-motive-16-184-diesel-engine/

[Nova Eona]

Finally the perfect 4104 repower.

Neat though.

[oltrunt]

Thanks for the posting. It's amazing what can be thought up and brought to fruition!  Jack

[Iceni John]

Wow, amazing!  One of many reasons I like 2-stroke diesels is their ability to be configured in so many ways, such as the legendary Napier Deltic (18 cylinders, 36 pistons, 3 crankshafts), or the Napier Nomad (a 12-cylinder gas turbine), or the Commer TS-3 (3 cylinders, 6 pistons, only one crankshaft), or the Fairbanks-Morse whose descendants are still in smoky service in Russian locomotives.   Fascinating!

John

[luvrbus]

The X design GM engines were actually Allision designed

[Lee Bradley]

Quite a few of the aircraft engine manufacturers tried 'X' engines. Then the jet engines and gas turbines came on the scene and it was game over. 

[Ed Hackenbruch]

What caught my eye was that they used wooden blocks and rope to hang that thing......  

[chessie4905]

Our local phone company used to have a 2 stroke standing on end for standby generator many years back.

[luvrbus]

Our local phone company used to have a 2 stroke standing on end for standby generator many years back.

I work on several 6v71's standing end to end on water wells here ,lot of industrial Ford V8 and Mopar industrial engines still on wells around here standing end to end most are propane burners a couple of gasoline burners still going   

[CrabbyMilton]

That's interesting and informative. Hard to believe now that while there are still several locomotives with 2 cycle engines out there, that number is decreasing.

[Lee Bradley]

Still building 2 cycle engines for cargo ships.

[luvrbus]

Lot of train engines out west still running the EMD 2 stroke engines ,sad the EMD engines are leaving since CAT owns EMD now ,the EMD's amazed me the block is not cast but a hand welded steel block for the vibration they produce  lol @ 900 rpm they rattle windows for a 1/2 of a mile 

[CrabbyMilton]

Both type seem to have a neat distinct sound especially when a long freight train is first starting out for the first few miles. The next generation likely will be much quieter. Those new SIEMENS locomotives that AMTRAK is adding are very quiet. So enjoy the older one's for the sound for now.

[freds]

Both type seem to have a neat distinct sound especially when a long freight train is first starting out for the first few miles. The next generation likely will be much quieter. Those new SIEMENS locomotives that AMTRAK is adding are very quiet. So enjoy the older one's for the sound for now.

Cousin is a railroad engineer and he hates the new genset locomotives with multiple generators that you start up and shut down as needed.

[luvrbus]

BNSF has some engines running on CNG, UP does too,freight trains consume a lot of diesel ,I read combined railroad trains co's  use 5 billion gals a year that is a lot of diesel fuel