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How do natural gas and propane locomotives work?

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How do natural gas and propane locomotives work?
Posted by aegrotatio on Monday, May 2, 2016 11:10 AM

How do natural gas and propane converted locomotives work?  Are they retrofitted with spark plugs or do they use compression ignition?

 

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Monday, May 2, 2016 1:46 PM

   Check this discussion from a little while back (with the usual wandering all around the subject):  http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/741/t/253924.aspx

   One method is to compress a mixture of the gas and air in a lean enough proportion that it will not ignite when compressed then inject a small amount of diesel fuel to ignite it.  That's the way I understand it; others here can tell you more.

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Posted by aegrotatio on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 3:39 PM
Great, thanks for the info.

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