Heres a few pictures from my work, none were taken by me, employees other than management can't have cameras on the property. The first is a company picture of all our shop employees (I'm the third person on the left side (In a blue t-shirt). The second and third are of our most recent remanufactured locomotive. One is the finished product and the other is what it looked like when it was sent out for paint. I spent 6 months on that switcher overhauling it.

 

cool. how much fuel do those little buggers hold?

brett

 

I think an SD38-3 (the orange engine) holds about 4000 gallons of fuel. The SW1001 ( the yellow engine) holds 2500 gallons. When they reach a million gallons the company rebuilds them.

 

just some of the stuff we build and we also build underground mining cars

 

How about some pictures of them during assembly?

 

How long does it take the average engine to get to the 1 million mark?

I have always thought those guys were cool I love raw power.

 

What time frame does that translate into, or distance?

 

It take roughly 10 years for them to reach 1 million gallons. Our engines only run from NW Indiana around Chicago almost to the Ill-Wis stateline, so they don't put on many miles each year.They do idle alot, rarely get shut off during the summer and are never shut off in the winter. They do use up some of fuel just idling. I would try to get a few pictures of the locomotives torn down but its very hard to take pics of them because of company policies.

 

What are they running, EMD 16's?
We have three 20's here at the plant for back up power. They are cool to work on. GOt a big Cat 3612 too.

 

OK.. The 6000 AMPS got my attention,
More information please.

Can't call Auto Club to start these.
Jim

 

That's a dynamic braking unit. Basicly converts wasted power from the traction motors to braking energy by using large ballast resistors with cooling fans.

MikeyB

 

That's ezakly what I was gonna say, what he said.

 

Yes we run EMD 645E 16,12, and 8 cylinder engines. We have a few 567C's running around still but most have been repowered with 645 powerpacks. They are some pretty impressive engines. All of them are 2 stroke and have Roots Type blowers, they like big 6v17 Detroits

 

My wife thinks the Yellow one is "Cute".

 

i know a guy that works refurbing trains for a company up in michigan.