I’m very impressed . . . all the images I put up yesterday got identified and within a few hours either in comments section or on Facebook.
The top foto yesterday came from Thomas Scian of the USS Slater project in Albany. Click here to read the latest Slater Signals publication with info about the upcoming dry-docking. Thomas has promised to keep us informed about the tow down the Hudson around mid-February–in two weeks or so already– so that this transit can be well-photographed. I took the foto below back in September 2013. Here’s the navsource.org info on Slater.
The engine room pics came from Kelsey Patrick Connors. The first engine room is from Navigator, with twin EMDs 12-645-e4, 2150hp each. Here’s a foot of Navigator Norfolk-bound out the Narrows.
Some of you commented on how clean the Detroit Diesel was. It’s one of two 16-cylinder 149s at 900 hp that power Outrageous. I took these fotos of Outrageous in May 2009.
Thanks much to Kelsey and Thomas for use of the pics. Thanks all of you for your answers. I have no news on Sea Lion.
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January 28, 2014 at 2:10 pm
mageb
How do I find you on Facebook? She humbly asks.
January 28, 2014 at 9:44 pm
Anonymous
Second that
January 28, 2014 at 10:35 pm
tugster
ok ok . . . help me out here. i’m not an engine guy, but i take your point.
January 28, 2014 at 10:34 pm
tugster
befriend me by my name, mage
January 28, 2014 at 7:34 pm
HT
Wil,149’s are 8 cylinder engines.
January 28, 2014 at 8:48 pm
Les Sonnenmark
The engines on OUTRAGEOUS are 16V149s, rated about 1200 hp each. Count the connections to the exhaust manifold–there are eight on each side of the engine.
January 29, 2014 at 11:49 am
eastriver
Thanks for the bit about USS Slater. I had no idea she was there, or open to the public. And kudos to the Gateway engineers; those engine rooms are indeed wonderfully-kept.
February 5, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Kelsey
The Outrageous used to be 1200hp per engine but were detuned and the turbos taken out…….its 900HP. I will show you the fleet card in her wheelhouse with all the HP ratings for the tugs in the GT fleet.