At the end of my career as a Locomotive mechanic with Burlington Route/Burlington Northern/ Burlington Northern Santa Fe, I was a their "Northtown Diesel Shop", in North Minneapolis. We specialized there in General Motors,(Electro- Motive Division)locomotives, and the standard engine was a 16V645, a V16, 645 cubic inch's per cylinder, it is a 2 cycle, 4 valves per cylinder about 3200 horsepower supercharged, or 3600 H.P. turbocharged,(the turbo weighs 6000 pounds). Pride of workmanship there was a priority!! The Motto there was,"If you don't take the time to do it right the first time--when will you have the time to do it over". The Company furnished us rolling 'Snap-On" tool box's, and any special tools that we needed, and if the temperature was over 90 degrees, we got free ice cream at break time. One time it took me a whole 8 hour shift to change some injectors and adjust valves, I was never rushed. The next day I saw that locomotive going by leading a train at 60 MPH, and it was a joy to hear the sharp crack of the exhaust, and know that those valves were set perfect. To me thats what pride in employment, and giving back pride in workmanship, was all about! I've been retired 9 years, now. New locomotives are 710 cubic inch's per cylinder, 4200 horse 2 cycles. Caterpiller tried putting CAT engines in GM locomotives, but the Cat engines were a PAIN, alwas breaking down..no reliabibility. "If you can't beat them..join them" so Cat bought the Electro-motive diesel division of General Motors in 2010.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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