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Trains News Wire EXCLUSIVE: Cummins entering North American locomotive re-power market
Motor designers in Peoria, Erie and LaGrange are laughing their keisters off…
The only thing that makes it look like an ISX is the red paint. And yes, they could V it, but 2 15 liter engines together makes it about 65 liters short of being a QSK95. It’s nice to know that Jeffretard knows nothing about 2 things, instead of just 1
Thanks for the commentary Jeffery…very interesting
Locomotives from Muncie. Prime movers from Columbus. It doesn’t get much better than that for Hoosier motive power devotes.
Looks like an ISX15 on steroids. RPM is about the same as the ISX series truck engines. Taking a stab in the dark here, it looks like Cummins added more cylinders to the ISX, built it as a V instead of an inline, and this is the end result. Meeting emissions should not surprise anybody because the truck engine manufacturers have had at least a decade head start on the railroad locomotive prime mover people. This is what happens when government favors one group over another with regulations in an attempt to destroy the regulated group. Like the Klingons would say, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Now GE and the rest of them will need to play catch up. As for durability, truck and off-road construction equipment engines take much more abuse than any locomotive prime mover could ever hope to endure. Ever drive US69 from Big Cabin, OK to Texas? I rest my case.
Now the next question. How long before Detroit Diesel gets in on this market with their engines? The DD15 is the only real serious competition for Cummins right now. Plus the DD15 operates at a lower RPM band which would probably make the railroads more comfortable.
As for the other truck engine manufacturers, Volvo has durability issues and lacks power. Paccar is new and has all the problems to be expected from a company that never built its own engine until very recently. But give them enough time and look out. Unlike railroading, trucking is cut-throat. Navistar’s engines are notorious for being underpowered and unable to meet government regulations without having to pay out carbon taxes created by those idiotic environ-mentalists and imposed by socialist government in an effort to destroy the trucking industry.
As for Caterpillar, there is a reason why they got out of the truck engine business. Government imposed regulations which the company was unwilling to comply with while having to deal with cut-throat competition. Which puts them in a position of playing catch up when it comes to having to directly compe
Now lose the political overtone and commentary -which have no place in this forum- and you have what appears to be an intelligent comment.
Goosie sounds like you breathed in TOO many exhaust fumes. If there weren’t for “burdensome” from the so called by yourself socialist government, the air we (including yourself) would be so unhealthy the death rates from respiratory diseases including cancer would be horrendous.
Selective catalytic? I wonder why no one has tried using DEF. Uses a whole lot less fuel then catalytic. Having an engine turn at a faster rpm does not necessarily improve things.
Semi truck emissions were regulated before locomotives for one, simple reason: there are more of them and they contribute more to the problem of pollution. You always go for the big fish first. That’s just common sense.
If Guse thinks environmental regulation is a bad thing, I suggest he go live in China, to see what it is like when pollution is NOT regulated.
I agree with you Loomis not only does it not look anything like an ISX it doesn,t even look like a QSK50 or any other current cummins engine. If anything it looks like a MTU V-12 in red paint. It would be awesome to see this beast in person. I think this engine will make Cat/EMD, MTU, General Defective rethink their current options in the locomotive prim mover field. We shall see,…only time will tell.
I, for one, love political commentary on “NewsWire”. This is the ‘real world’. Doesn’t Roger Penske own Detroit Diesel? Can’t they cram a DD15 in a NASCAR racer, or a silly ‘Indy’ car?
Mel & Mo: what say Larry & Curley?