Train Trivia (ANSWERED)

[Anonymous]

Answers tommow at 8:00 p.m. Mountain time.

[Rotorranch]

I won't give away the answer, but Rudolph Deisel had big plans for his engine....

Rotor

[cspmo]

The first Diesel Engine burned powdered coal, so what do I win.

[1shado1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cspmo

The first Disel Engine burned powered coal, so what do I win.

A spell checker, because you spelled "Diesel" AND "powdered" incorrectly. Please share it with Rotorranch.[:D]

Jeff

[Pruitt]

Great. Another one of these threads!

[:(]

[1shado1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Brunton

Great. Another one of these threads!

[:(]

One of WHAT threads?

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Jeff N.
Anti-pompous poster

[Anonymous]

Mobe it ran on Corn flakes with out the Milk.
Allan.

[Pruitt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 1shado1



One of WHAT threads?

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Jeff N.
Anti-pompous poster

You know - those. Like the seven or eight threads all titled "Quesiton of the Day."

Just ignore me. I think I'm having a really bad day, and it's still awfully early!

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing powdered coal because it seems like one of those kinds of questions where the answer has to be the most unlikely of the choices. [?]

[Anonymous]

That will be 10PM eastern, 9PM central and 7PM for the coasties. I know let's not forget the Maritimes, 11PM. What time is the answer to be revealed in our 49th and 50th states?
Will

[cspmo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 1shado1

QUOTE: Originally posted by cspmo

The first Disel Engine burned powered coal, so what do I win.

A spell checker, because you spelled "Diesel" AND "powdered" incorrectly. Please share it with Rotorranch.[:D]

Jeff

Oh well it was 04:32:56 in the morning[xx(]

[Anonymous]

I dont really give a rat's***what the first one ran on. I just know my Power Stroke runs like a dream on diesel.

[cacole]

Rudolf Diesel's first engine ran on powdered coal -- but do we really need a daily question like this tying up the bandwidth?

[railroadyoshi]

Not only do we have questions of the day, we have two of them, Now thats over the top. Lotus, do you plan to create more of these, or was it a one time thing?

[Anonymous]

I have pages of these questions I have been working so, this will go for a while.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 1shado1

QUOTE: Originally posted by Brunton

Great. Another one of these threads!

[:(]

One of WHAT threads?

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Jeff N.
Anti-pompous poster

I just thougth maybe I could share some information in a fun manner. I used to like reading Lou Boyd in the newspaper, so I started doing a train trivia thread this is not the first one, by the way.

[Train 284]

I knew this one!

[Rotorranch]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 1shado1

QUOTE: Originally posted by cspmo

The first Disel Engine burned powered coal, so what do I win.

A spell checker, because you spelled "Diesel" AND "powdered" incorrectly. Please share it with Rotorranch.[:D]

Jeff

Axtually, I speel purty gud...jest don tipe to wel! [:D]

As for the first Diesel engine fuel, Rudolphs first experimental engine used gunpowder. It didn't work. The coal fired engine blew up, nearly killing Diesel. His first succesful engine ran almost a minute under it's own power, using peanut oil.

Below are some excerpts from an article at the National Railroad Historical Society website. Read the complete story here: http://www.nrhs.com/web_exclusives/rudolph_diesel/

Rotor

Quote: Imagine an engine, first developed in 1895, that was so good that examples from this era still work perfectly today. An engine first designed to run on gunpowder then developed to use vegetable oil injected under pressure directly into the combustion chamber. An engine that needed no spark or electricity to run and that is still the only choice for heavy transport to this day. This engine is of course the Diesel engine.

Rudolf Diesel did not build the machine that bears his name. Rather he developed a theory of internal combustion, plus a few crude prototypes. However, none of the prototypes he worked on in his lifetime, worked especially well.

Rudolph Diesel initially considered powdered coal and, later on, liquid fuels such as vegetable oil and petroleum as possible fuels. Powdered coal proved difficult to inject into the engine cylinder and eventually caused an explosion that destroyed the prototype engine. He built his first engine based on that theory the same year and, though it worked only sporadically, he patented it. Within a few years, his design became the standard of the world for that type of engine and his name was attached to it.

At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Diesel's prime model, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time. During 1885 Diesel set up his first shop-laboratory in Paris and began his 13-year ordeal of creating his distinctive engine. Diesel spent two more years at improvements and on the last day of 1896 demonstrated another model with the spectacular, if theoretical, mechanical efficiency of 75.6 percent, in contrast to the then-prevailing efficiency of the steam engine of 10 percent or less.

Diesel built the first diesel engine in 1897 at the Augsburg Maschinenfabrik (now known as MAN). The single-cylinder engine was used to power stationary machinery. It weighed 4.4 tons (five tonnes) and produced 20 hp at 172 rpm. The engine operated at 26.2 percent efficiency, a very significant improvement on the 20 percent achieved by the best gasoline engines of the time. A number of industrialists expressed interest in acquiring licenses.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for answering! See this is informative not just another stupid question.

[Anonymous]

OK , what is the answer? The powdered coal that blew up the prototype?
Will ... carefully reading and waiting!

[Anonymous]

Powdered coal was the original even if it didn't work.