interesting loco engine:England

[cfz2882]

Watching locomotive videos on youtube,came across an especially interesting one developed in England right after ww2 and used in boats and locomotives over there for a few decades afterward:Napier Deltic.Opposed piston two stroke diesel,18 pistons operating in double ended cylinder bores arranged in a triangle shape with a crankshaft at the 3 "points"of the triangle,the 3 crankshafts geared to the output shaft.Quite a few have been preserved in running order so the cool,unique sound can still be heard

 

[triumphdolomite]

Deltic

I'm glad you've enjoyed the Deltic, a brilliant piece of engineering its not only the sound that's distinctive but the smell too. The two strokes pass large amounts of oil through the exhaust which ends up in the exhaust collector drum and burns off under heavy acceleration, it also has a tendency to catch fire quite regularly. (Search Deltic Deliverance on Youtube). You could always tell coaching stock that had been Deltic hauled as the leading coach would be splattered with oil. There was also a smaller version with a single engine, the Baby Detic Project are currently building one from scratch. The majority of the diesel loco fleet in the UK is now made up of GM and GE products. Classes 59, 66 and 67 are GM and Class 70 GE.
Ian

 

[vacerator]

Nice to meet

other train buffs. I'm familiar with the Deltic, and the older EMD 567, and 579 series.
Has GE surpassed them of late?
I collect Marklin model trains, etc. I have a British Dumpy book of locomotives and trains from 1961 published by Samson/Low.
A favorite and wish list of many American and European model railroaders is the Marklin ho Union Pacific Big Boy. Including me.
I have some other nice ones though, and yes I run them on my layout. A BR610 Pendolino rail car that actually tilts on curves, another Bombardier 612 rail car set
A German BR10 with digital sound and control, Wurtemberg state railways klasse C, a BR50, a BR110 Lufthansa airport express, a BR 103, a complete Rheingold/Parsifal 7 car set, two different BR120, a DB 216 diesel, Bi level commuter car set, a BR 185 Duetsche museum loc. and ICE 3, an ICE 1, a TGV by Jouef made in France back in the early 90's, a Eurostar, a Roco museum edition E18, an OBB Taurus class 2016, OBB glakasten, a BR E10.3, a Swiss SBB RE460, and a Danish state railways MY1126 (EMD) powered. Etc., etc.

 

[petek]

Always loved  trains. Strange how without even considering I ended up working on the railroad til I retired.  And when my mom took me and my sister to England back in 67 (i was 11.y.o. ) we stayed a couple of days with my uncle near London and then set off by train from London to visit dads family in Newcastle.. I was so excited when it turned out to be the Flying Scotsman. I'd only ever heard of such things by my dad telling me how it could speed along at 100 mph.. not like the milk run trains here barely getting up to 50 if that. LOL

 

[vacerator]

"Flying Scottsman"

held the rail speed record for some time.

 

[cfz2882]

was wrong on the piston count for the "big"Deltic-36 pistons,kinda like 3 v-12s joined at the block decks Did check out "delic deliverance" Hehe that one did come alight pretty good .I collect model locomotives as I come across them-including glass Avon bottle versions.There is a railroad yard fairly close to me and I can hear them working at night-on some of them,at least one of the fans must be coupled to the engine as you can hear the fan speed up when the Loco throttles up-5 fans on top of the Loco.

 

[vacerator]

slight correction

about the flying scottsman; "when it was hauled by the Mallard locomotive circa 1938."