'Diesel Power' Magazine 1946

[Overmod]

M636C

... a conventional twin engine passenger unit said to look like the early Baldwin cab units.

FAR from conventional.  This unit was designed to use the Bowes drive with mechanical (probably Cardan shaft) drive to the axles, thereby eliminating both a great deal of weight and the problems with wheelbarrow-mounted traction motors at high speed.  As happens, there are drawings in the Bowes collection at the seaport museum in Philadelphia.

This is the engine I'd have liked to see trialed:  The robust characteristics of the Superior diesel coupled to a true high-speed drivetrain with no mechanical wear contact between the engine and the final drive.  It might have made a difference to keep Ingalls in the locomotive business, especially since the drivetrain would have been near-ideal for the lightweight-train concepts, certainly more so than many of the designs actually built.

[M636C]

Somewhere I've seen details of a proposed range of Ingalls locomotives which, as I recall, included an end cab switcher, another turret cab unit and a conventional twin engine passenger unit said to look like the early Baldwin cab units.

I assume that this was either a contemporary report or a railfan magazine repeating the report.

Peter

[sswcharlie]

Hi Guys

 

Thanks for your posts.   I will try EB etc

 

Thanks

Charles

[seppburgh2]

Also try searching eBay as well.  You may need to buy a bound 1946 volume.  Good hunting.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

The fact that this publication had Volume 24 in 1946 suggests that it is a technical publication covering diesel engines in various uses (rail, stationary, marine, etc.).  A college or university with a strong engineering department may have copies available for reference in its library.

[sswcharlie]

Hi

In this link:           https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Ingalls_4-S#cite_ref-3

there is this reference:

"The Ingalls 1500-HP. Diesel-Electric Locomotive". Diesel Power, Volume 24, 1946. Pages 588-589, 614

Where can I locate a copy of the 3 pages mentioned ?  Who can help? I do not know this magazine and have googled but not able to find anything.

Thanks

Charles Harris