Re: Alstom (Paxman/Ruston/Mirrlees) Diesel Rationalisation

[Patrick Dunford <no.sp@m.please>]

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>Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Exactly. However, if you were after a 4 stroke you would have to give
>> serious consideration to the Alco 251 or a GE FDL prime mover over a
>> EE/Ruston.  Simpler, more reliable and more fuel efficient as the Alco and
>> the GE are specially designed for railway use.  Just ask the Spanish and
the
>> Greek railways who were big Alco users.

I dispute this was not the case with the EE engines, the K series and RK 
that
followed it were indeed built for railway applications. They happened to 
have
found marine application as well, which is not particularly unusual in that
class of engine.

>Yes indeed, I go along with that, four strokes now
>reign supreme, even the great EMD is building them.  

All Ruston engines are four stroke, I don't get your point

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