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

[Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Patrick Dunford wrote:

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> >Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> 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.
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I always thought that the EE K series was originally designed for  submarine use
and was modified accordingly for railway use.

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> >Yes indeed, I go along with that, four strokes now
> >reign supreme, even the great EMD is building them.
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> All Ruston engines are four stroke, I don't get your point
>

Tells point was for the last 55 years EMD have been producing only 2 stroke
engines.  It is only within the last 5-6 years that EMD have developed a 4 stroke
engine. OK.

-greg