Catastrophic engine failure on locomotive

[JimD]

Amazing! Worst engine failure carnage ive seen was during Desert storm. Jet took off and climbing out thru 10k when the tail engine chunked a fan blade, causing the whole thing to fly apart, blew off both fan cowl, thrust reversers. huge holes in both horizontal stabs. They declared and emergency, dumped fuel and landed, but what a mess. Took 4 months to fly in support equipment and make the repairs. Same failure as United 232 had that ended up crashing in Iowa. Due to a tcto that installed a #2 engine firewall shutoff valve, this airplane only lost the #2 hydraulic system, not all 3 like UAL 232.

[roliath]

he wasn't double clutching like he should.

[Rotortrash]

And where was FreightTrain when this happened?

Picking up engine debris probably isn't in his job description, so union rules prevented him from participating.

[scootro]

thats crazy! i've never seen anything like that

[Strychnine]

WOW! That's pretty impressive. I'm assuming that those motors turn over pretty slow compared to other gas and diesel motors.

~1050 rpm




For the entire power cylinder (liner, head, injector, etc) AND the piston to be ejected bad stuff happened.
Note that there's no rod on that piston. Makes you wonder what broke first.


Just a guess: Power cylinder not properly secured, comes loose, gets launched via compression, piston has no liner (to guide it) and no compression to counter the upward speed, snaps wrist pin, follows path of the jug??

I posted those same pics on the other site years ago and could never find an official cause of failure.

[03trubluGT]

~I posted those same pics on the other site years ago and could never find an official cause of failure.

So what you are saying is "HEY C.J., It's a REPOST!" ????

[Forever_frost]

I wonder what the payout to the home owner is going to be

[SMKR]

I wonder what the payout to the home owner is going to be

just physical damage. It came to $69.18

[CJ]

So what you are saying is "HEY C.J., It's a REPOST!" ????

ever tried to search 'train' on these forums? Every damn post has that word in it. It was impossible to search for, I did my due diligence damnit!

[Snatch Napkin]

ever tried to search 'train' on these forums? Every damn post has that word in it. It was impossible to search for, I did my due diligence damnit!

You wouldn't find it on this forum anyway. It was posted in Canada. So, it only kinda qualifies for being a repost.

[Scott Mc]

Was the train was trying to take off on a treadmill?

[2165 Turbo Rail]

Was the train was trying to take off on a treadmill?

Let's discuss lol

[03trubluGT]

Let's discuss lol

Wassup ma ninja?

[Cobraman]

Let's discuss lol

Catostrophic engine failure, hmmm.


You know all about that!

[crapstang]

That piston sure would look cool sitting on your garage shelf