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
1w 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
1M 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
2M 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
3M 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
4M 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
Vintage Diesel Design
5M ago
Unfortunately, I have been slammed between work and getting my LLC going, so I have not had time to sit down and get Part 4 of the EMD 567ATL engine done yet. Hopefully that can be done in the next week or two. For now, here is a filler post. The cover of Fairbanks-Morse news ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
7M ago
At the end of the war, the US was faced with a monumental task. What in the world do we do with the 1,000’s of ships, tanks, trucks and literally any and everything one could think of, that were now coming home? An old industry suddenly exploded – War Surplus. Each of the major divisions ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
8M ago
I will begin this by saying I am not writing this post as a history and operation of the WWII LST, or Landing Ship, Tank. There is plenty about that on the web, thus I defect. I will include some links in the last part of this series for some further reading. For this, I ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
10M ago
Northwest of Chicago, the small town of Union, Illinois is home to the Illinois Railway Museum, the largest railroad museum in the country. IRM is home to dozens of locomotives of all types, freight cars, traction, passenger, steam – literally everything railroad related. Being so close to Chicago, IRM certainly has an “EMD” feel to ..read more
Vintage Diesel Design
1y ago
Earlier this year, I was able to pickup a large group of original Winton (and some Cleveland) prints. One of the tugs there was prints of, is the Turecamo Boys. I remember seeing this photo several years ago when we were at the Cleveland Public Library going through bound volumes of Winton News. Yes ..read more