I picked this up at a garage sale and thought it was neat. Anyone know if this type of gauge would have been used on a steam locomotive? Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks, franktrain
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Originally Posted by franktrain:
I picked this up at a garage sale and thought it was neat. Anyone know if this type of gauge would have been used on a steam locomotive? Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks, franktrain
Since it is a Hydraulic pressure gauge, with a Max of 10000psi, there wouldn't much use for such a device on any steam locomotive.
Thanks Hot Water.
franktrain
Looks like you have a real treasure there from the late-1920's and certainly before 1930 when the Winton Engine Company as is lettered on your gauge was bought by General Motors and became the Winton Engine Corporation, which later became their Electro-Motive Division (Cleveland 567's, etc.). Winton diesels used a multi-cylinder, plunger type, high-pressure fuel pump, that pumped fuel oil into a manifold. From there fuel oil was admitted into the individual cylinders through mechanically operated injection valves. Regulation was through reducing the fuel oil pressure and varying the duration of the opening of the injection valves. What you have may well be the fuel pressure gauge from one of their large marine or stationary diesels. As an aside, a Winton 201 powered the original Burlington Zephyr streamliner.
Originally Posted by oscar golf:
Looks like you have a real treasure there from the late-1920's and certainly before 1930 when the Winton Engine Company as is lettered on your gauge was bought by General Motors and became the Winton Engine Corporation, which later became their Electro-Motive Division (Cleveland 567's, etc.). Winton diesels used a multi-cylinder, plunger type, high-pressure fuel pump, that pumped fuel oil into a manifold. From there fuel oil was admitted into the individual cylinders through mechanically operated injection valves. Regulation was through reducing the fuel oil pressure and varying the duration of the opening of the injection valves. What you have may well be the fuel pressure gauge from one of their large marine or stationary diesels. As an aside, a Winton 201 powered the original Burlington Zephyr streamliner.
You may want to do some additional research about Winton Engines. The first Winton engines used by Electro-Motive Engineering Company were gasoline engines with massive carburetors. Later, when Winton developed the their compression ignition engines, referred to back then as "oil engines" a unit fuel injector was used, with a constant low pressure diesel fuel supply to the injector, i.e. NOT high pressure. To this day, the EMC/EMD unit injector is still used on two stroke cycle EMD prime movers (16-710E3 engines for example).
