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The Progress Rail SDL38 is a current export model and the SDL38-2 designation is a GM era model designation with the 16-645-E engine. Very confusing.

Who at EMD did you ask? EMD doesn't like it when someone is hopeful about getting into the locomotive rebuilding business and then screw everything up. EMD either repairs your traction motor or gives it to an APPROVED service shop. What I've recommended is to ask someone that has purchased a EMD loc...

As I remember all new engine were cooped up with a gray grease that I took as molybdenum disulfide.If you use some assembly lube with zinc in it the use oil analysis will cll it out as zinc disulfide ( I Think ) an anti wear compound that use to be found in motor oil suitable for flat tappets. This ...

Progress Rail OWNS EMD and its EMD that makes the parts.

Go to Progressrail.com and go to locomotive components.

Try contacting Stewart & Stevenson of Houston, Texas. They should have all the data needed to design propellers including torsional data so the shaft won't break . Valley Diesel of California also has a lot of marine experience especially with ferries. I don't know what the details are but EMD i...

You seem to be confusing the 645 Diesel with a spark ignited engine where you have to maintain a correct air fuel mixture. All 645's are controlled by a governor where the engine speed is set and if the load varies the governor varies the fuel to maintain the set rpm. For instance on a blower engine...

The 16D4, an industrial engine was rated at 2000 KW or 2680 HP @ 900 rpm for driving a synchronous generator. The usual reason for using 645 power assemblies is that they only had to stock one kind of PA. On the D4's, by using 645 PA's they use the 645's with the laser hardened liners and piston wit...

EMD only used one type of thermocouple that I know of (p/n 8462981), a matching pyrometer was shipped as part of the order.

Why don't you take a reading by dunking a thermocouple in boiling water to see if you are close to accurate or check with ABS to see what calibration method they would use.

1000 Deg. F to 1100 Deg. F is about right for an engine at full power. Remember you are reading the exhaust temperature between the exhaust valve and the turbine inlet. After the turbo is done with it it should be about 750 deg, F.

The length of the 8-710 would be less - 4 cylinders long vs. 4 but the bore spacing would be the same as the pistons are the same diameter. I think the height of the crankshafts are the same as they both mate up to the same generator on the ECCO conversions. The 710 is essentially a 645 with a 1 inc...

I bet the highway dept. was wondering what happened to those plates.

Looks like this week's "Storm of The Century". Good thing it came along, the weather channel was about to name cloudy days.

They use a water treatment like NALCO 2000 which has a rust inhibitor in it.

The standard (locomotive) engines turns CCW while looking at the fly wheel and the blade rods are on the right bank and the fork rods are on the left. CW engines have the rods the other way around. In general only marine engines are "handed" with CW (left hand rotating) and CCW (right hand...