Giant Diesel Equipment? Post 'em if ya got 'em pics

[ToolManTimTaylor]

With so many of us out there... . anyone live/work near strip mines? Or have huge excavation projects going on? Giant earth moving equipment , maybe your own equipment.

Maybee live near a complex that runs huge larger than normal generators (You know the ones that makes the big ONAN units look small)

Maybee steal a snapshot and post 'em.

 

[E7mack96]

this is my biggest

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[JCarrell]

One of our engines

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/forums/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=5447&password=&sort=7&thecat=500

 

[HEMI®Dart]

The Silver Spade Dragline

I found these pictures awhile back. The Silver Spade is HUGE!



Site: www.stripmine.org



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[bmoeller]

Found this on the Strip mine site, I know it's electric BUT... . -



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I think this one has the Silver Spade beat. It has a 220 cubic yard bucket! :--)

 

[KWentling]

I live and work in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming with lots of mines. They don't allow cameras on the property without mine manager preapproval. They do allow our salesmen to take pictures of jobs. I work for a service company and we work on the equipment all the time. (welding and machine, and electric moter servicing) Draglines, shovels, Cat D11 dozers, 998 loaders, 24H graders, Letourneau loaders, haul trucks up to 360 Tons, drills,you name it. All kinds of big stuff. I haven't looked in a long time, but I think you can see some pictures by searching for the mines on the net: Arch Minerals: Black Thunder Mine (used to have pictures of "Ursa Major" a BE 2570 Dragline with a 175? cu/yd bucket), Rag Coal West: Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte Mines, Powder River Coal Company: Caballo, North Antelope/Rochelle Complex, Rio Tinto: Triton and North Rochelle, Kennecott: Jacobs Ranch, Cordero Rojo Complex, and others. Lots of quad turbo V16 diesels. Cats, Detroit, Cummins.

Kim

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

yep I posted those same pics a while back too. Man its a shame the spade is out to pasture

 

[Peterbilt379CJ]

yes, it has them all beat. . that is big muskie. the largest drag-line excavator to ever walk this earth. sadly she is no longer with us.



did you know that when in full rotation the end of the boom would travel at 60mph!!!!!!!!

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Originally posted by KWentling

I live and work in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming with lots of mines. "Ursa Major" a BE 2570 Dragline with a 175?

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That looks more like a 90Yd in THIS PARTICULAR picture. Hard to tell with the 994D lookin' loader at the bottom center of the pic.

 

[KWentling]

Yea, they started out with smaller buckets and have since gone to what I think was a 175 yard bucket made I believe at Watco of Casper, Wyoming. They had a picture of it being transported in the local paper awhile back. Lots and lots of axles under it!

Kim

 

[bmoeller]

Originally posted by ToolManTimTaylor

yep I posted those same pics a while back too. Man its a shame the spade is out to pasture

Did they shut it down again? I read and saw the pictures of the Spade, and they moved it to a different mine on the other side of the road it had been on.

 

[Doc Tinker]

"Space Shuttle Crawler Transporter. These magnificent vehicles have been in use transporting Saturn 5 moon rockets and Space Shuttles to the launch pad since the late 1960s. They are powered by twin V16 cylinder diesel engines. "

 

[Doc Tinker]

Not diesel but pretty big stuff. And it's a four cylinder



"The largest, most powerful, and most magnificent steam locomotives ever built! They were built to pull large tonnage over the 1. 55% continuous grade up Sherman Hill in the Wasatch mountain region just east of Ogden Utah. Before BigBoy, a helper service was required. "



"They can do up to 80 MPH, but produce maximum continuous power at 70 MPH"



"The engine and tender weighed 1,189,500 pounds in working order"

 

[scotmartin]

You can visit the Cab Forward version of this engine in the Sacramento Railroad Museum.

 

[KatDiesel]

Originally posted by scotmartin

You can visit the Cab Forward version of this engine in the Sacramento Railroad Museum.

There are no cab forward versions of the Big Boy. Twenty-five Big Boys were built exclusively for Union Pacific. The locomotives were 132 feet long. Because of their great length, the frames of the Big Boys were "hinged," or articulated, to allow them to negotiate curves. They had a 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, which meant they had four wheels on the leading set of "pilot" wheels which guided the engine, eight drivers, another set of eight drivers, and four wheels following which supported the rear of the locomotive. The is the largest steam locomotive in the world.





The cab forward you refer too was built for Southern Pacific. The largest version had a 4-8-8-2 wheel arrangement with an approximate weight of 531,700 pounds. There were 257 cab forwards in operation by the 1930's.











The largest steam locomotive in operation today is the Challenger #3985. Union Pacific at one time owned 105 Challenger locomotives. Built between 1936 and 1943, the Challengers were nearly 122 feet long and weighed over one million pounds. Articulated like their big brother, the Big Boy, the Challengers had a 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement. Its coming through Omaha soon on a trip and I hope to catch some pics of it.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

I just Jnew Eric would chime in!

Originally posted by KatDiesel

The largest steam locomotive in operation today is the Challenger #3985.

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[Doc Tinker]

What do those babies use for fuel? I was thinking coal, until you mentioned a cab forward model, then I got to thinking about how they would feed the coal to a rig like that. If they are diesel fueled, then I guess they qualify for the Giant Diesel Equipement after all



Doc

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Also This Link On Wheel arrangements Is a great chart to dig up info!

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

Southern Pacifics Cab-Forward locomotives used Bunker C oil as fuel. I remember reading stories about these..... had to preheat the oil before running it into the firebox. Sometimes the heater got left on too long and the oil boiled out and over the sides of the tender. Imagine that happening on the crack Daylight passenger runs. biiig ooops.



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I know most of the Big Boys were coal fired... . I think the last 4 or so were oil fired though (or converted to do so). Not sure on that though.



One thing that I have been told though is that its wierd running a steam locomotive if you're used to diesels. Diesels peak out on tractive effort at low speeds (need to add HP-extra units for speed) Most steam engines are just getting into it at 35-40 mph or so and pull like hell to the top end. basically if you can start the train... its gone.



One of the reasons diesels killed steam..... most of the work is done at 40mph or lower. right in the diesel sweet spot so to speak. Steam couldnt pull as much tonnage as the diesel at low speed.



Jeff

 

[BIGDIG]

Heres a BIG BOY that was on my jobsite for the submersed tunnel tubes in the Fort Point Channel,Boston.

American Super Sky Horse model 11320

450 ton lifting cap.

250' boom

75' jib

60" wide crawlers

Cummins VT1710C V12

Turbo Engine