RE: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg,

Here's an interesting page on the Campini engine.  I'd
never heard of it till you mentioned it.  Google is
amazing.
http://www.isoliti4gatti.com/Cc2.htm

Steve
--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:

> At 4:36 AM 10/26/04, Steven Stegmann wrote:
> >Greg,
> >
> >Did you ever hear of the Napier Nomad diesel
> aircraft
> >engine.  I saw one at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazey
> >center at Dulles Airport.
> >
> >Turbocharged diesel, with a second turbine whose
> >output was combined with the shaft drive to the
> >propeller.
> 
> Nope. Then again, have you ever heard of a Campini
> engine ?? A piston
> engine in which all the crank does is drive the
> supercharger. Exhaust,
> combined with (air cooled) engine heat provides
> thrust !!
> 
> Greg
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Nomad
> >
> >Steve
> >--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:
> >
> >> At 8:04 AM 10/25/04, Steven Stegmann wrote:
> >> >There's a UP "Big Boy" in the St. Louis County
> >> >Transportation Museum.  Hard to imagine
> something
> >> like
> >> >that moving.
> >> >
> >> >Steve
> >>
> >> The UP's 'Big Blows' were equally amazing, but
> not
> >> as heavy as the 'Big
> >> Boys'. They were gas turbine electrics--which
> burned
> >> SO much fuel oil that
> >> they had to have a tanker-tender just to carry
> their
> >> fuel. I think, at
> >> least, they had the decency to put traction
> motors
> >> on the tender as well as
> >> on the locomotive !!!
> >>
> >> But the MOST interesting UP thing I ever saw was,
> I
> >> _THINK_ (never was able
> >> to chase down the details) was what appeared to
> be a
> >> combined cycle gas
> >> turbine unit !!! Think it had to be a gas turbine
> >> electric top cycle with a
> >> RECIP STEAM bottoming cycle !!!!!! This was in
> '92,
> >> saw it taking a long
> >> freight down 'the ramp' in western Nebraska. My
> >> guess would be a big two
> >> shaft turbine--fan jet sort of affair--taking
> power
> >> off the shaft to make
> >> power for traction motors on the tender, and on
> the
> >> leading and trailing
> >> trucks, using the fan to pull air over a steam
> >> condenser (yep, it appeared
> >> to be a closed steam cycle, only a wisp of dark
> >> exhaust smoke from it), and
> >> then take the turbine exhaust through a fire tube
> >> boiler (with perhaps a
> >> bit of afterburn using the excess O2 in the
> exhaust
> >> stream--to run the
> >> pretty convention steam drivers !!!
> >>
> >> Greg
> >>
> >> >--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> At 11:30 PM 10/24/04, John M. Adams wrote:
> >> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> >> From: owner-ihc@domain.elided
> >> >> [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
> >> >> >> Greg Hermann
> >> >> >> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:42 PM
> >> >> >> To: ihc@domain.elided
> >> >> >> Subject: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Saw a 148 wheeler (highway) rig today !!!!
> >> >> >
> >> >> >P.S. If that WAS an E60C or equivalent loco
> like
> >> >> their other ones, its
> >> >> >weight is typically between 185 and 195 U.S.
> >> tons
> >> >> (plus or minus a few
> >> >> >pounds... :)
> >> >>
> >> >> Sorta light compared to, say, one of the UP's
> old
> >> >> 'Big Boy' steam mallets
> >> >> !!! Climbed and looked all over one of them
> once
> >> at
> >> >> the Forney
> >> >> Transportation Museam once in Denver, before
> they
> >> >> moved it. 1,250,000 lbs.
> >> >> of iron in one of those critters !! :-)
> >> >>
> >> >>  If you add the weight of the two tractors,
> the
> >> >> "jeeps", the
> >> >> >carrier beam... Man, I don't want to think
> what
> >> the
> >> >> total weight of that rig
> >> >> >was.
> >> >>
> >> >> Had to be in the neighborhood of 600 K lbs,,
> >> maybe
> >> >> even north of that,
> >> >> including the ballast on the two tractors.
> >> >>
> >> >> Must really be a LOT of art involved for the
> two
> >> >> tractor drivers to
> >> >> coordinate their driving!
> >> >>
> >> >> Greg
> >> >>
> >> >> How do get a rating to drive something like
> that?
> >> >> It's not like there's
> >> >> >much opportunity to practice! Wish I could
> have
> >> >> seen it...
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Any pictures?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Thanks,
> >> >> >
> >> >> >John A.