Vintage Diesel Design
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The Vintage Diesel Design blog is dedicated to the History and Trivia about Diesel Engines. Documenting some of the most prominent engine designs and uses of the 1930s-1960s, The blog takes a closer look at older Diesel Engines Designs, Companies, Tugboats, and other Maritime vessel engines, and much more interesting stuff from the bygone era.
Vintage Diesel Design
1M ago
Forward: I originally asked Jay Boggess to put this post together to help better explain how AC power generation worked, as well as how EMD started down the path of AC technology. This will be important, as this year we will be taking a deep dive into EMD’s mobile and stationary power generation which were ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
7M ago
Southwest of Cleveland, Ohio is the small town of Oberlin, home of Oberlin College. Like many small towns of the era, a small municipal power plant was built in 1933, utilizing a quartet of Fairbanks-Morse engines. The Oberlin plant was featured the January 1948 issue of Fairbanks-Morse News. The plant originally featured 4 FM 33 ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
7M ago
I have been wanting to do a bigger in depth post on the former FDNY fireboat Fire Fighter for some time now, frankly, I just have not had the time to do so. In the mean time however – Fire Fighter has had some engine trouble. The boat just got out of the shipyard, and ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
8M ago
One of the most ubiquitous locomotives of the century is the Alco-GE-IR boxcabs, produced in the early 1920’s through the late 1930’s. What began as an experimental project in the 1910’s, would be the first strong foothold in the eventual dieselization of the nation’s railroads. From a 1935 Ingersoll-Rand Locomotive Catalog I have The Boxcab ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
9M ago
Needless to say, this is indeed a filler post. Here is a sneak peek at Part 5 of the EMD 567ATL engine story. We were able to obtain a bunch of original EMD photos of the engines and the installs, including some negatives. Here is a look at one. I have tons of photographic material ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
1y ago
I originally planned this article as just a highlight of the tug Ludington – A US Army LT tug built by Jakobson in 1943. This tug was built as a class, so I thought…why not expand it to include all the tugs, and a look at their history. The Original Trio Stepping back a few ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
1y ago
We get a fair amount of emails here asking for help with specific engines and certain specs – such as torque values. This winter we got an email asking about head bolt torque on the FM 32E14 engine, as there is not one single torque spec in the manual (all 3 versions I have, zilch ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
1y ago
The above 6-cylinder gas engine was built by Alexander Winton in 1911. This engine was successfully used to power one of his factories for the Winton Motor Carriage Company. Thanks to the success of this, and a vision, he founded the Winton Gas Engine & Manufacturing Company (later renamed Winton Engine Company) a year later in 1912. The ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
1y ago
We are going to get this series wrapped up (for now…more on this later..) so we can move on to some other topics with a quick look at some post war uses of LST’s in-whole and the handful of survivors out there. LST-987, Millard CountyLST-987 was one of the later LST’s, having not been finished ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
1y ago
In our third part of this series, we are going to take a quick look at a special engine, the 12-567CA. Now, some of you guys may be saying “567CA? No, you mean the 567AC, an A engine with C upgrades!”. Well, no. We talked about those in Part II. The 567CA is a one-of-a kind model, with one ..read more