Break out the hot dog weenies and the smores.
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| Posted by Tom on February 5, 2015 | |
Uuuh, for those of us who have no idea, what the heck is "GE ingestion ?"
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| Posted by FSWood on February 5, 2015 | |
Didn't someone way back when write a song about GE locomotives, and it goes something like "Come on baby, light my fire"?
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| Posted by on February 5, 2015 | |
You just got to love the "Alco" effect. Great photo. The fire and ice are a great contrast.
PCA vote.
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Thanks Everyone for the great comments
GE ingestion is the term I use GE unit ate something bad and its spitting it back out
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She's just clearing her throat; nothing to see here. Move along...
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"GE Ingestion" refers to the tendency of GE locomotives to shoot (sometimes large) bursts of open frames out the exhaust stack, often as the throttle setting is increased.
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| Posted by Gary on February 6, 2015 | |
GE ingestion=
They eat turbochargers!
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Indigestion or heartburn would be a better description.
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I heard it's unburned fuel that collects in the manifold and once the throttle gets yanked wide open, it's time to roast some hot dogs and the marshmallows. GE Ingestion or Indigestion sounds pretty accurate. The crew looks like they don't know that flames are coming out of the stack.
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Unless something significant has changed, Saratoga North Creek does not haul coal. Awesome shot though
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Well snc is not hauling coal they are storing it on the sidings at Thurman, White sand, Corinth, river side, Kings, and at Saratoga station temporarily for CP.
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| Posted by FSWood on February 7, 2015 | |
Way back in 1980s saw this condition several times while watching switching at N&W's Lambert's Point when rapidly throttling up with what seemed to be a heavy cut of cars. There isn't an engineer handy to ask the question of, but enough photos have been seen through the decades that I would expect crews knew this happened occasionally. That is a good question as to whether they knew it was the case with their locomotive at any given moment, since line of sight from cab seats to exhaust stack isn't exactly clear and open.
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Hints of the Delaware & Hudson running one of their Alco's. Great catch!
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| Posted by Rob on May 5, 2015 | |
Without the other explanation of the cause of the loco spitting 'fire' ? I would have thought this rather alarming, if that much fire came out of the exhaust of a British (or US built) loco they would call the fire brigade!
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