We had 3 of those that my shop on the Aircraft Carrier USS AMERICA CV 66 maintained. We always had to exercise them before we went along side another ship in case the main generators went down. The steering was hydraulic and if we lost power we wouldn't have steering.
They were originally designed for high altitude locomotive engines. Because they were located so far below in the ship they used them. Those blowers are enormous.
Ours used a air starter. They had a 3000lb high pressure air flask with 150lb reducing station.
They are cool as shit.
We had 3 of those that my shop on the Aircraft Carrier USS AMERICA CV 66 maintained. We always had to exercise them before we went along side another ship in case the main generators went down. The steering was hydraulic and if we lost power we wouldn't have steering.
They were originally designed for high altitude locomotive engines. Because they were located so far below in the ship they used them.
Those blowers are enormous.
I miss working at the railroad this was my life before I started making music
Great... I'm never not gonna call them warp nacelles now... LLAP...
Man way to clean in that air box somethings wrong , they must be doing the pm’s ( jokes)
Those are Roots Blowers. This looks like an EMD 645 16 or could be 567 16
Good eye! Actually there are 2 different engine blocks shown in the video. One is a 567C, the other a 645E. They are nearly impossible to tell apart.
@ehadder
There’s many of these and the 710 series in operation. Onboard the towboats in the inland towing industry.
567C