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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