Beware if you live near the tracks… |

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- February 20, 2011 at 9:24 am #30150
  Bob Rooks
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  This is Canadian National locomotive number 2699. It is the second engine, a 212 ton
  machine powered by a General Electric 183 liter 4400 hp V16 4 stroke diesel engine.
  
  Shortly before this picture was taken, while working under load, 2699 experienced what is known in the trade as a “catastrophic uncontained engine failure”. The train was passing the town of Independence at the time.
  The first picture below shows that the engine exploded and one of the 16 cylinder power-packs that form the engine was ejected through the engine bay body side and thrown clear of the locomotive. In addition to the cylinder, the piston from that cylinder was thrown free by the force of the failure. It was ejected so violently that it traveled
  through the air and crashed through the roof of a nearby home where it embedded itself in an interior wall.
  
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- February 20, 2011 at 2:23 pm #31130
  CTOA
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  And I was thinking of taking a train ride to New Orleans…thanks for the news. Is any form a travel safe! .
  
  Bob, I see you figured out the picture upload. Very nice.
  
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- February 20, 2011 at 3:14 pm #31139
  Bob Rooks
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  Thanks, just wish they could enlarge more. Would be really helpful for detailed images.
  
  I forgot to mention that those GE engine packs are the actual integral cylinder head, water jacket, valve gear & injector, cylinder liner, piston & rings, and con rod w/bearings all in one very heavy assembly. I think around 1,000 lbs.
  
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- February 20, 2011 at 4:03 pm #31140
  Carl Darnell
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  That makes for a very large cannon ball.
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