Thursday, January 16, 2014
GE ES44DC Engine Specs
The General Electric (GE) Company is an American company, headquartered in New York, which started in 1892. The company specializes in technology, energy, capital finance and consumer products and solutions. It also creates engines for transportation equipment, including trains. The GE ES44DC is an engine car created by Cooper Bessemer for the GE Company. GE started producing this engine in 2003.
Dimensions
The dimensions of the GE ES44DC are 73 feet 2 inches long by 15 feet 6.5 inches high to the top of the hood. To the top of the cab, the engine is 15 feet 4.5 inches high, and the cab width is 10 feet 3 inches wide. The hood is 9 feet 11 inches wide, and the walkway is 5 feet 5 inches wide. The truck wheel base is 13 feet 2 inches wide, and the wheel diameter is 3 feet 5 inches. The center bolster is 53 feet, and the total distance between the truck center is 66 feet 2 inches. The trailing edge from the rear truck to rear pilot is 1 foot 7.5 inches, and the leading edge from the front truck to front pilot is also 1 foot 7.5 inches. The engine weighs 416,000 pounds (lbs).
Tanks
The fuel oil tanks can hold up to 5,000 gallons of fuel oil, and the lubricating oil tank holds up to 450 gallons. The total sand capacity is 40 cubic feet (ft3), and the engine cooling water tank holds up to 450 gallons.
Power
The GE ES44DC features a four cycle, GEVO 12 model engine, which generates up to 4,400 horsepower (hp). The minimum revolution per minute (rpm) is 450, and the maximum rpm is 1,050. It moves up to 70 miles per hour (mph), and its gear ratio is 53:20. The engine bore is 9.8 inches, and the engine stroke is 12.6 inches. The engine bore is the diameter of the cylinders, and the stroke is the total length that the pistons move.
Features
This engine comes with six GE 752AH traction motors and dynamic braking. It features Westinghouse model 26L air brakes and a model 3CDC air compressor, and it comes with two Koppers 872-22 tractor motor blowers. The tractive effort is the pulling force of the engine. The starting tractive effort is total force produced at a dead start, and this is 142,000 lbs at 25 percent. The continuous tractive effort is the total amount of force at a certain velocity, and this measurement is 109,000 lbs at 13.7 mph.
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