Quality GE Locomotives

[E.M. Bell]

Ah..GE, keeping your local Fire Dept busy for decades..just because they can! 

NS 8362 on train 168 at Shelbyville, KY

[blacksheep]

yea, quality. about a month ago amtrak #19 had to stop down here on the ags becouse it's 2nd unit, #207, was on fire. they set it out and went on with one unit.

[Badhorse79]

GE
Gigantic Explosion
Gasly Exhaust
Great Explosions


Please feel free to add your own lol

[steveiez]

Saw one do the fireworks show one night in Glenfield Pa. Mack Truck once made an engine that did it on long hard pulls. It was a 711 diesel.

Why are these GE's so popular then?

[E.M. Bell]

Why are these GE's so popular then?

#1 CHEAP
#2..I hear the AC works well, and they have great seats

[E.M. Bell]

I do miss the good ol C39's..they where always good for a show..case in point, NS 168 on Waddy Hill back in 2003.

[cmherndon]

#1 CHEAP
#2..I hear the AC works well, and they have great seats

I guess you have to keep cool somehow when your engine is on fire.

[steveiez]

We see gangs of C 39'S around here. Seems to be a well used engine even on point of train. I still am an EMD kinda guy!

[Matt L]

Why are these GE's so popular then?

They have a 4 cycle engine, which reduces fuel costs.

Second, EMD stumbled pretty badly with the GP50/SD50 series.

Third, GE has its own credit.

[steveiez]

In-house credit always helps!!

[etalcos]

Two things tend to ignite a GE:

1)  The fuel lines to each cylinder are external to the crankcase.  The low pressure supply is run in hoses and the high pressure to the injectors is in steel lines.  So when one springs a leak you get raw fuel sprayed on a hot exhaust manifold!

2)  The C-39s had injection issues -- I want to say they were the first ones to use electronic fuel injection.  Anyway, excess unburnt fuel going to the inside of the hot manifold = EB finding a good photo subject shooting flames out the stack.

My wife says GE = toaster.  Perhaps its more like toasted.

We're putting a couple of U-boats in service, so I'm having to remember some of the old GE tricks that I've tried hard to block out over the last 10 years...

[Badhorse79]

Just seen on the news that 8306 went up in flames today over in lockland Ohio (not to far from my house) Cooked it pretty good ... The news peeps said it was a CSX train but it was NS unfortunetly

[ssw9662]

Again? 8306 blew up near Harrisburg just a few weeks ago. It's a shame too because they had just repainted it.

[NSDash9]

The unit that burned was NS 8304, which had just been repainted.


Chris