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Internal Combustion Engines.

(08 Aug 07)

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Internal Combustion Engines

In 1924, Ingersoll-Rand perfected the first commercially-successful railroad diesel engine (termed an "oil" engine then because "Diesel" was a German name and not popular after WWI). The first locomotive to be equipped with the engine was sold by the consortium of ALCo-GE-IR (American Locomotive Co./General Electric/Ingersoll-Rand), a "boxcab" to the Central RR of New Jersey as their #1000 and the second, with two engines, to the Long Island RR as their #401. The engines were six-cylinder, 300 HP, units. Several such locomotives, including that first CNJ unit, still survive and a few are in operating condition.

(08 Aug 07)

I was surprised to learn on 07 Aug 2007 that two more such engines, albeit larger ones, also survive; the massive Yankee Fork Gold Dredge, all 988 tons of it sits near Stanley, in central Idaho, up the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River. Built at a cost of $428,304 by the Bucyrus-Erie Company in 1940, and measuring 112 feet long and 54 feet wide, with a four-story superstructure that is 64 feet high (essentially a huge barge), it was powered by two 450-horsepower Ingersoll-Rand series S diesel engines which ran generators to power the dredging and ore crushing equipment. Not only did the engines survive but they have SEVEN 10½" x 12" cylinders each (29,094¼ cu. in.!) and could still run IF some critical parts like manifolds for the starting air and distributors for the timing of the air could be located. (09 Aug 07)

Here is a photo of one of the engines, with its generator:

Can anyone out there please help locate the starting hardware?

Rich Allen, the manager of the Yankee Fork Gold Dredge (which is one of the few dredges in the lower 48 that you can take a tour on) responded nobly to my request for more pix, including the generators: (19 Aug 07)