Sojc's question about 'upper and lower ends' reminded me of one of the most creative diesels I have ever seen--the Deltic. A diesel with no heads--all 'lower ends'. Here's an animation. http://www.wis.co.uk/justin/deltic-engine.html

Click on the picture for the animation.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I've always wondered what made a "Deltic" unique...thanks for sharing.

On this side of the pond, Fairbanks-Morse built 'Opposed-Piston' diesels for railway locomotive and marine propulsion. They were in-lines, opposed (no pun intended) to the Deltic config.

I can attest to the fact that those F-Ms are huge engines.

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"Fairbanks-Morse built 'Opposed-Piston' "

3 years ago I delivered a surplus navy YTB class, 110" tug around from the right side and it had a 10 cylinder Fairbanks-Morse (OP) 'Opposed-Piston main engine, 2 cycle, 2000 HP. 10 cylinders and 20 pistons, with a crank on the top and bottom. The submarine at the San Francisco Maritime museum has an "OP" for a main engine also.

Kerry....Thanks for posting that, very interesting, talk about lots of parts flying around

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Those F-Ms are still in use every day! The "Bay Class" WTGB (140ft icebreaker) US Coast Guard Cutters are powered by a pair of those beasts turning generators for the electrically-driven propeller.

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R Leo

Ya, they are nice engines. The HQ for Fairbanks-Morse is in Norfolk Va so we had a couple of their top techs aboard to square a couple things away. We actually broke twice on the way out of town.

Theres also allot of Bhuda (sp?) engines in navy rigs but like OPs you dont see many in the civilian world.

Have you seen the USCG "Conifur", 2 EMDs, diesel electric ?

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Very cool ,wonder what I did evenings before I found MS............
William Rogers......

I never saw Conifer but I saw a sister ship, Firebush when I was in Kodiak last year. Those WLMs are old...pushing 50 years. I think there's only two left in the service.

My son was a BM2 on CGC Storis, which is a one-of-a-kind, 230 foot "scaled up" version of the 180s. Storis is the oldest Cutter in the Coast Guard. She was commissioned in 1942. Her power is sort of like those WLMs but instead of two prime movers, she has three- EMD 16V-645s I believe.

Here's a web page I put together on Storis when Seth was first assigned to her: http://www.onr.com/user/rleo/USCG/Storis_Info.htm

Those Navy engines were/are "Buda" power plants. The Army liked them in their boats too. Huge things, slow turning.

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R Leo

Those old boats were nice with all the brass work and proper lines, the new CG cutter in town here looks like something out of a "Flash Gorden" comic strip, built down in the gulf, oh well .. Nice web page on the Storis.

Kodiak.. where front yards are gray slate rocks just like the back yards and a patch of lawn is unknown. I was up there in the early days of king crab (9.5 cents a # ) and again in the early "80"s running freight boats and processors. I wonder if the "Breakers", "Sollies" or that old ship hull made into a tavern out of town a ways, is still there. Kodiaks a long ways from Area
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Steve