Was thinkin SAME THING when I said it but wasn't sure if that would neccesecelery be a compliment..Yeah, I said celery...
Gotta love a GE with a bad turbo. :teeth: I had one trailing one day that was real bad. Heading up Tehachapi, going through tunnel 5 the smoke was beating us out of the tunnel. As we made our way out of the tunnel, a huge plume of black smoke was pouring out of the bore. This was followed by an enormous fireball. I'm still surprised we didn't catch the whole mountain on fire.
Do you get any sort of a visual or audible warning before a unit "explodes" like that? Or do you hear it and hope that specific unit hasn't thrown something else through the exhaust stack?
That unit made it to Barstow. GE units will belch flame/smoke for weeks before the turbo finally "has enough". In normal operation, the turbo will not kick in till run 5, so they naturally smoke pretty heavy when you increase the throttle above run 4. This is due to the oil and unburnt fuel that collects when the turbo is not "engaged." When a turbo does go out, about the only thing you'll hear from the cab is the alarm bell. But I'm sure it'll make a pretty good bang if you are standing near it. Not to mention the oil and fan blades laying all over the place.:embarassed:
I had that problem once... ...(well, OK, a few times)- too many burritos, buckets of KFC and Big Macs when railfanning! Mark
Here are some vids of some Blowupbloups this is literally blowing up [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=DAKbkU9l-xE"]YouTube - Locomotive Fire....GE AC4400CW Blowing a Piston...UP 6741[/ame] this is odd [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=GSJw8AhtdrA&feature=related"]YouTube - SP locomotive shoots fire out stack[/ame] this is some good sound [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=oP_McSupIFE&feature=related"]YouTube - External Fuel Ignition[/ame]
i did not want to overload something or go to the limit this is cool and good sounding [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=KDJBaeUVyqE"]YouTube - Flaming GE Locomotive 1[/ame] [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=yT1Cisg4ukI&feature=related"]YouTube - Flaming GE Locomotive 2[/ame] gotta love the sound of the breaks [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=qYtTecEbqOg"]YouTube - westbound with smoking DPU[/ame] [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=TjxsVdrzSMs&feature=related"]YouTube - Smoking engine[/ame] something must of went wrong in the tunnel [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=H-ztLI8op04"]YouTube - MRL/BNSF Loaded Coal Drag coming out of Mullan Tunnel[/ame]
