When CAT buys EMD,maybe they will build diesels with a shovel attchment like the diesel in the Thomas the Tank Engine movie.[:0]
CAT does make good stuff. I am a heavy diesel technician, hence the nickname Heavy-D. I have been a truck mechanic for years. CAT engines are ok for trucks but they are the most expensive to overhaul compaired to DD or Cummins. But when it comes to the heavy equipment side I think this CAT/EMD thing might be cool! GM seems to not give a rat’s a#$ anymore and CAT would jump right in both feet first. Sounds like labour issues will kill the plan though.
Thank M636C, I ‘C’ what you mean, and I put phonics in the fuel. I’m still mostly in the mechanical era, kinda stunned by the press release, and found your reply to be most informative. (Yours too Mookie!) I didn’t know about DD, last I heard John Deere taught them how to build a 4 cycle, which up until recently made a revolution in the trucking industry. The 3406B, the last truck engine I drove, was mechanical fuel injected, from a pump gear driven off the accessary drive(front), with flyweight type governor. It used poppet type injectors, fed by indiviual steel fuel lines, which could not be substituted with copper, for reasons you mentioned. I know you new this, and I thank you for your contribution, as you know I study Diesel, as a hobby. The MK5000 used a 3512 series, with awesome specs. 5000 locomotive horsepower, and it is just a V12! The 3616, is rated 6650hp at the flywheel. I expected EMD to hookup with that, however, they went and spent four-hundred million US dollars to develope the Series 265H. (I heard the Western European craftsmen, laughed at the EMD 2cycle). Anyway, I can’t wait to hear any one or maybe two of those beasts in run eight, with 14,000 tons, on any grade! Enjoy your ALCo memories! Allen.
great… if this goes down… my father in law might be designing my work toys… but on the upside…i might actualy be able to get a cab that is user friendly… since i might have an iside track…lol
csx engineer
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Yeah, they have CAT engines. If this EMD/CAT thing happens MPI (the maker of MK1500’s, MK5000’s ect) will really be the loser.
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MPI is a subsidiary of EMD, producing the “new” GP 15 and GP 20 under contract, both carry a EMD builders plate.
If EMD goes to Cat, so does MPI.
Ed