Re: Engines

Posted by greygoat on April 20, 2012 at 06:50:43 from (69.179.77.180):

In Reply to: Engines posted by bigboreG on April 19, 2012 at 19:18:29:

Speaking as a retired locomotive mechanic:
I was working during the experiment with "Cat"
power in GM, EMD, locomotives. The Cat engines
were broke down more than they were running! They
put a 4 cycle V12 in where a 2 cycle V16, (645
cubic ince per cylinder)had been. The company
had so much trouble with them that they didn"t
let them loose to roam the system, (Burlington-
Northern), but restricted them to Minneapolis-
Chicago, or Minneapolis-Fargo service, where they
wern"t so far from "home" when they had to be
towed back dead. I don"t know the exact problems,
as I didn"t work on them..special "Cat" guys
came in when they broke down. And parts
availability was horrable..sometimes they"ed sit
for weeks, waiting for parts. What kind of
service is that? provide a "Test" engine with no
parts availibility? CAT finally decided that they
couldn"t build a sucessful locomotive engine...
"when you can"t beat them-join them" so they
bought EMD.(Electro-motive Division of GM)
The current "Standard" engine is a 710 cubic inch
per cylinder V16.

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