General Electric Tier 3 locomotives suffer engine fires

That’s why we always referred to GE locomotives as “Toasters”!

GE h.as a fine engineering team. They will find a solution to this problem

GE h.as a fine engineering team. They will find a solution to this problem

WOW! Fifteen comments and I’m still waiting for someone from Illinois to tell us these fires result from government mismanagement.

Get Jack Welch on it. The dude is an expert on darn near everything. Just ask the relic. LOL.

Thanks once again EPA, we all might as well just walk. Sarcasm.

I guess there’s some irony there, in that i’d guess that any noxious pollution these would prevent by being Tier III compliant would be negated many times over by a big smoky loco fire.

cutting corners again 20,000psi reminds me of a fatal fire on a australian supply ship

I don’t know why you’re all amazed by the relatively high fuel pressure, or the teething problems being incurred… Truck engines have had to meet much more stringent emissions standards for years, and the current generation of them (the 2011 standard) are a nightmare. Wait until the big class 1 railroads have to put 9 power units on a train that normally takes 5, to compensate for the DEF system failures that shut the loco down en route… It’s only going to get better… Lol

I wonder if those parts were made in China?

Yes, 20,000 psi. Chevrolet’s Duramax engine approaches that in the fuel rail whenever the truck is running. Perhaps since EMD is no longer part of GM, GE should ask them for assistance?

They probably get written up by EPA when they cook one.

I had a toaster catch fire once, but it was a Sunbeam. Lots of fuel in Pop Tarts once they fire off…20" flames, sounded like a GE Turbine…

20,000 p.s.i. and Vibration never make good bed fellows.
Does GE carry out any form of induced environmental testing ?

As an engineer I find it hard to believe that they have not done any induced vibration testing. The vibration spectrum mut be easy to replicate.

MORE CRAP BROUGHT ON BY THE epa

Nothing like the problems that erupt from Government mandates, is there? OH, the engine exhaust meets EPA regs, but the smoke and soot from one erupting in flames?,…Uhhhmmmm,…uuuhhhh,…

20,000 psi or higher. I see diesels that have common rail pressures approaching 30,000 psi. The higher the psi, the finer the injector spray, the cleaner and more effecient they run. But when they leak…

The 20,000 psi is likely on the injector side. No references handy but that sounds typical.