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old jock wrote:Nice pic Helen
Alycidon, I expect you of all people being a railway enthusiast of some experience and having the nomiker you do must be aware of the Deltics propensity to create vast smoke screens.
Especially if after sitting a while. Being a 2 stroke a certain amount of oil will be ejected and as I understand this pools in the exhaust where it burns off under load with a hot exhaust.
I believe quite a few of them have caught fire in the past
John
old jock wrote:LP
Yup 2 Stroke Diesel and not your average engine either. No cylinder heads port timing and compression is controlled by opposing pistons, so the engine has 3 crankshafts.
Link if you are interested on a pretty unique engine manufactured by Napier. The original concept was developed by Junkers and used in aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
Loco has 2x 18 cylinder engines each powering a generator, of a little over a MW each, these in turn provide the elek-trickery to the traction motors in the bogies.
I'll get ma anorak
In fairness, the guy who designed an engine of this complexity must have been King Anorak himself. Anyone with a talent like this should have been out impressing women rather than playing with a trainset.
John
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