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Post by kg5388 on Feb 7, 2011 21:33:54 GMT -6
a Buddy sent me these pictures of an engine failure in a Locomotive. The locomotive is a 212 ton machine powered by a 183 liter, 4400 hp V16 4 stroke diesel (the large generator engine in the picture above is only a 60 liter) while working under load it experienced what is known in the trade as a "catastrophic uncontained engine failure". The first picture below shows that the engine exploded and one of the 16 cylinder-packs that form the engine was ejected through the engine bay body side and thrown clear of the locomotive. In addition to this the piston from that cylinder was thrown free by the force of the failure. It was ejected so violently that it traveled through the air and crashed through the roof of a nearby home where it imbedded itself in an interior wall.
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Post by ibugly on Feb 7, 2011 21:42:49 GMT -6
I wouldn't have wanted to be near it. If the crew didn't jump beofre it came apart I'd say they have some shellshock from it. As close as I got to a diesel flying apart was a Detroit 671 Marine. Real bad to run away and we kept a fire extinguisher handy just in case.
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Post by caretaker on Feb 7, 2011 21:51:06 GMT -6
I`ve seen a 671 inline in a compressor sling apart but that 16 cyl. I would not have wanted to be no where near it.
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Post by ibugly on Feb 7, 2011 21:59:04 GMT -6
Yea I've seen what 24 inch impeller turning about 10,000 RPM can do when things go wrong. Kinda like a straw in a tornado.
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Post by caretaker on Feb 7, 2011 22:14:54 GMT -6
Bet that piston scared the occupants of that house.
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Post by ibugly on Feb 7, 2011 22:29:34 GMT -6
Maybe I better move LOL. I'm right over the med chopper route from Knoxville to Lafollette.
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Post by fyimo on Feb 9, 2011 17:32:19 GMT -6
That would scare the S__t out of you if it came crashing through the roof of your house.
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Post by ibugly on Feb 9, 2011 20:55:49 GMT -6
I'd hate to be the guy who lives across from the entrance to the road I live on. The power company tap off for my road is straight in front of his house. When the fuse blows at the tap the lights go out up here then I hear the Boom like a cannon to follow a second or two later. It has to rattle his windows and I'm a quarter mile away.
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