its the special red X turbo

 

What ever it's from, it's reversible.

 

Crazy?!?!?!?

 

Thats not a turbo, its an air cooled horseshoe...

 

box, does it have a shaft coming out the other end, farther than the compressor wheel?
the emd 645 loco engines had a strange turbo like that, it was mechanically assisted with an overrunning clutch.

 

Thats what I was thinking.. EMD..

 

That looks like the exhaust housing with multiple inlets and a single outlet.

Think of it like this: take a ford powerstroke. V8 engine with a single inlet turbo. There is a Y-pipe (collector) that brings the exhaust of both left and right manifolds together BEFORE going to the turbo.

That big one pictured above, looks like it eliminates the collector (Y-pipe). Probably bolts to both exhaust manifolds on a very large V configuration diesel engine.

 

Man, if I could find 4 of those things, I shoe my horse with them!!! I'd have the only horse in town wearing "AIR Garretts"