During my high school years of 1959 - 1965 my parents lived in Beloit, WI, two blocks from where Fairbanks-Morse built and tested those big engines. When outside we could hear them chugging away. After graduation Fairbanks offered me a welding apprenticeship so I took it. Many of the engines that left there had my fingerprints on brackets that were fastened to the engines to hold parts or pipes. That was my first full time job after school. I stayed at Fairbanks-Morse for about six months before I moved to a different job. I recently learned the navy has decided to build a brand new ship named, USS Beloit to honor the contribution Beloit laborers made to the engines that went in the navy ships. We are going to be famous!
I met a guy at Rock Cut State Park who was in the entrance house. He said he worked for Fairbanks Morse many years ago. They had a giant horizontal lathe used for truing up sections of steam engine boiler plate made in circles to be welded together to form the body. The lathe was 20 feet across and had a tolerance of less than 1/8 inch. Amazing engineering for 50 years ago.
Love those fairbanks morse engines! Back in 1989 I was on a ferry boat going from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland. I got a tour of the engine room. The boat had four big 12 cylinder opposed piston diesel engines ,Fairbanks Morse model 38D ,running at full power. Beautiful sound!!!!
In Russia we have a metric modernized copyes of two stroke ten cylinders opposit Firebank Morse diesels on heavy diesel locomotives 2ТЭ10м. That engines named 10Д100 and sounds great
If y'all come across one built between 1940 and 50, My Dad easily could have had a hand in its design and/or build, he worked for them during WW II, company deferred him from USN service, since he was engaged in Submarine engine development, to increase efficiency and power. He did too, got them improved by some 5% as Dad told me. When they closed the Beloit plant Dad went to BLH designing diesels for switch engines mostly but saw a few HUGE V-12's for Natural gas fields in Canada.
It's wonderful that these guys have them and keep them able to run. But it is sad that the engines do no work. An engines purpose in its life is to do work.
Koreshan State Park in Estero, FL has a 1925 Fairbanks-Morse, similar to the exact one that was used to run an alternating current GE generator around that time for the community that occupied this spot at that time. .It is run every Saturday by the volunteers of the old engines club. Seen it twice. Great thrill and a very interesting park. Edison himself came down from his summer home in Ft. Myers to see it. As you may know he ran a direct current dynamo back there.
I remember hearing these running in the oil fields of south Texas. They run the old pump jacks that pumped the oil out of the ground. My two older brothers were mechanics on a lot of these and the bigger multi-cylinder compressor engines.
Were you running synthetic TCW3 2 stroke oil fed to these or something like amsoil sabre professional. i have only filled an and 5 gal;s of quiksilvewr TCW3 in a 6-71 detroit with awsome results.
Older telephone company central offices had backup emergency power from engines similar to that shown at 4:45 on this video. Compressed air was used to start the engine. It was big and loud. You prayed that someone in the CO was around trained to start the monster if a rare but real power failure occurred in the area.
Worked on engines same/similar to the thumbnail (which wasn’t in the video...) FBM 10-38D8-1/8. Have a lower piston from one as an ash tray in my shop. Opposed piston two stroke. That’s the roots blower top left, loud asf...
I worked on a tri-lobed shaper that finish machined the impellers for our inhouse Pielstick blowers. I operated an electrostatic balancer straight out of Fords River Rouge Model T plant modified to hold the giant crankshafts from the same engine. When O.P. production was strong they farmed out for the Roots blowers. The crated Roots units were stored next to my machines prior to assembly/testing of the O.P. engines. The workforce in that O.P. building was 2nd to none. The most awesome job a man could have. Whenever I hear a locomotive rumble by under load I know that my labor had a part in that. (I also have a pair of coated O.P. pistons I got as souvenirs for my service)
We used to see and hear the FM Trainmaster locomotives that the Southern Pacific ran on the Peninsula commute line between San Francisco and San Jose. I've also been up close to the starting of a FM vertically opposed 10 in a guppy class submarine.
You'll have to do a video of old British oil and gas engines starting up. The most common makes are Ruston, and Blackstone, but there are others. To me, the bigger the better.
I've always wondered if there is any difference in fuel consumption between one of these huge one lung monsters VS a modern high RPM diesel engine. Run a test using the same load on each type of engine, within it's specs starting with 1 gallon of diesel and see which one runs out first.
I asked a guy very knowledgeable on the subject a similar question and he said without a load they would run literally all day if I remember correctly. Very efficient, only fires when it needs to.
Modern engine are more thermally efficient but being so light weight and fast running sacrifice engine life for thermal efficiency. So one of these big engines may run longer on a gallon of fuel, but would not make as much power at the shaft (Hp/Hr or kWh whichever unit you use). However it would still be making that power when your children have children, unlike a modern engine.
It's a modern O.P. engine built in Beloit WI. The Mechanic/Assembler pictured was in the process of installing the piston/ connecting rod assemblies if it was a build. If the opposite he was disassembling for a rebuild. I worked my career there as a machinist
Diesel propulsion for subs ended a long time ago. Now smaller versions go in subs to provide power for the systems while a nuclear reactor provides steam for propulsion. I worked my career there in Beloit WI. The shock test for the engines involved lifting a running engine over a steel plated floor and dropping it. It passed if everything kept working. There is no better engine in the world than a submarine rated engine
You showed a Fairbanks Morse 38DS 8 1/8 engine attached to this video and it's not in the video. This was the engine on my ship in the Coast Guard. Would have loved to hear it run but it's not included.
We're you assigned to the polar star shipset? I worked my career there in Beloit WI as a machinist. We took great pride in creating these mammoth engines for the Navy/ Coastguard ships. The pic at the beginning was an O.P. engine that wasn't used for propulsion. It was for power generation. Propulsion would have come from our Pielstick engines.
@@momtenjillian987 No I was on the Bristol Bay out of Detroit. When the Bouy Tender Bramble was decommissioned they made a multipurpose vehicle out of her by strapping on a barge to her front.
@@jcoghill2 interesting. In the 90's is when the icebreakers were ordered. We were very proud to work at giving our Coast Guard that circumpolar navigation capability
Disappointing seeing my tugboat engine on the cover-picture.and not being in the video. Whats up with that. That engine would turn a aircraft carrier around on a dime by itself. A true workhorse. YTB 785 still survives to this as a civilian tug. She was part of river-rat sqaudron out of viet-nam
Can these engines run a generator and make cheap or emergency power? I'd be hooking it up to something to get some benefit from it. They are cool to watch for a few minutes but I wouldn't make a hobby out of it. Seems silly to start a engine to listen to it run and watch a wheel go around. I love the sound of my vee twin motorcycle but then I put it in gear and go someplace.
Emergency yes, cheap eghh maybe. You gotta remember these are carbureted but only fire the plug based off the governor. So they wind up sucking fuel they don't even burn.
I don’t see how they’re productive.? They JUST sit there and waste fuel. But if you like to sit and watch an engine run or listen to it run go for it I guess. I’m not judging...... too much lol
They're good for running a corn sheller, stationary baller, Syrup press stuff like that well pumps and whatnot anything you need to do intermediary but yeah most of them just sit there not doing work right next to people's baseball card collections and whatnot.
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During my high school years of 1959 - 1965 my parents lived in Beloit, WI, two blocks from where Fairbanks-Morse built and tested those big engines. When outside we could hear them chugging away. After graduation Fairbanks offered me a welding apprenticeship so I took it. Many of the engines that left there had my fingerprints on brackets that were fastened to the engines to hold parts or pipes. That was my first full time job after school. I stayed at Fairbanks-Morse for about six months before I moved to a different job.
I recently learned the navy has decided to build a brand new ship named, USS Beloit to honor the contribution Beloit laborers made to the engines that went in the navy ships. We are going to be famous!
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Hello. I was born in 1988. I wish I was from your generation . Back when Men had a penis . Take care my friend.
As a lifelong engineer I LOVE the 'music' of these engines - dount laugh I could SLEEP to the sound of them - great beat!!!
I met a guy at Rock Cut State Park who was in the entrance house. He said he worked for Fairbanks Morse many years ago. They had a giant horizontal lathe used for truing up sections of steam engine boiler plate made in circles to be welded together to form the body. The lathe was 20 feet across and had a tolerance of less than 1/8 inch. Amazing engineering for 50 years ago.
Love those fairbanks morse engines! Back in 1989 I was on a ferry boat going from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland. I got a tour of the engine room. The boat had four big 12 cylinder opposed piston diesel engines ,Fairbanks Morse model 38D ,running at full power. Beautiful sound!!!!
I was charge hand on the rebuild of a 12-cylinder 8 1/8 Fairbanks in a Canadian navy tugboat back in the '80s. It was quite an experience.
In Russia we have a metric modernized copyes of two stroke ten cylinders opposit Firebank Morse diesels on heavy diesel locomotives 2ТЭ10м. That engines named 10Д100 and sounds great
If y'all come across one built between 1940 and 50, My Dad easily could have had a hand in its design and/or build, he worked for them during WW II, company deferred him from USN service, since he was engaged in Submarine engine development, to increase efficiency and power. He did too, got them improved by some 5% as Dad told me. When they closed the Beloit plant Dad went to BLH designing diesels for switch engines mostly but saw a few HUGE V-12's for Natural gas fields in Canada.
The plant never closed. It changed owners several times but it is still there today in 2023 manufacturing giant and large diesel engines
It's wonderful that these guys have them and keep them able to run. But it is sad that the engines do no work. An engines purpose in its life is to do work.
That easy start of the second engine! Amazing!
Koreshan State Park in Estero, FL has a 1925 Fairbanks-Morse, similar to the exact one that was used to run an alternating current GE generator around that time for the community that occupied this spot at that time. .It is run every Saturday by the volunteers of the old engines club. Seen it twice. Great thrill and a very interesting park. Edison himself came down from his summer home in Ft. Myers to see it. As you may know he ran a direct current dynamo back there.
I remember hearing these running in the oil fields of south Texas. They run the old pump jacks that pumped the oil out of the ground. My two older brothers were mechanics on a lot of these and the bigger multi-cylinder compressor engines.
Were you running synthetic TCW3 2 stroke oil fed to these or something like amsoil sabre professional. i have only filled an and 5 gal;s of quiksilvewr TCW3 in a 6-71 detroit with awsome results.
They really do have souls . Whether awake or asleep !!! 😁👍👍👍👍
Older telephone company central offices had backup emergency power from engines similar to that shown at 4:45 on this video. Compressed air was used to start the engine. It was big and loud. You prayed that someone in the CO was around trained to start the monster if a rare but real power failure occurred in the area.
So basically Alex Jones was right .
They look so cool, i love old motors, and they sound reallyyyy nice !
Love that little engine, brilliant!
They all so make very good old scales
Imagine my surprise while watching this video and there I am starting the 208 Fairbanks!!
Who would’ve thunk it!!
Your a ⭐️. Thanks for sharing
Well done amazing these old engines still running😊
I worked for Fairbanks-Morse in the 70's, still making weight scales for quarries & such.
Stan Moyse ring any bells?
@@tonyc.4528 No. I was in East Moline, Illinois.
@@wymple09 AK, ok. He was in St. Johnsbury, VT
Worked on engines same/similar to the thumbnail (which wasn’t in the video...) FBM 10-38D8-1/8. Have a lower piston from one as an ash tray in my shop. Opposed piston two stroke. That’s the roots blower top left, loud asf...
I worked on a tri-lobed shaper that finish machined the impellers for our inhouse Pielstick blowers. I operated an electrostatic balancer straight out of Fords River Rouge Model T plant modified to hold the giant crankshafts from the same engine. When O.P. production was strong they farmed out for the Roots blowers. The crated Roots units were stored next to my machines prior to assembly/testing of the O.P. engines. The workforce in that O.P. building was 2nd to none. The most awesome job a man could have. Whenever I hear a locomotive rumble by under load I know that my labor had a part in that. (I also have a pair of coated O.P. pistons I got as souvenirs for my service)
We used to see and hear the FM Trainmaster locomotives that the Southern Pacific ran on the Peninsula commute line between San Francisco and San Jose. I've also been up close to the starting of a FM vertically opposed 10 in a guppy class submarine.
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This is it! I'm selling my car ... I need one of them engines!!!!!!😍
Admit it.. the slower they run, the more you all like it.
YES!!!!
indeed
Duh
Nope
I prefer it when they're more at like half-speed
Thank you for this video and the info on each engine
Cool old engines. Next video will be ‘How I lost a limb’. lol
You'll have to do a video of old British oil and gas engines starting up. The most common makes are Ruston, and Blackstone, but there are others. To me, the bigger the better.
I've always wondered if there is any difference in fuel consumption between one of these huge one lung monsters VS a modern high RPM diesel engine. Run a test using the same load on each type of engine, within it's specs starting with 1 gallon of diesel and see which one runs out first.
I asked a guy very knowledgeable on the subject a similar question and he said without a load they would run literally all day if I remember correctly. Very efficient, only fires when it needs to.
Modern engine are more thermally efficient but being so light weight and fast running sacrifice engine life for thermal efficiency. So one of these big engines may run longer on a gallon of fuel, but would not make as much power at the shaft (Hp/Hr or kWh whichever unit you use). However it would still be making that power when your children have children, unlike a modern engine.
Woodward UG-8 governor on that Fairbanks. Woodward still makes those today.
Nice
Do you like these FAIRBANKS MORSE engines ?
Yes, indeed 👍
Cars and Engines I love old engines, these are my favorite engines
I love the "hit and miss" engines. *sput*
Yes you all should go see the Oblong IL engine and tractor show next month. Look it up it’s worth the time to go see.
The first engine I crank-started as a pup was a small FM utility thingy on the farm. Ah, the fond memories.
Have you ever seen one of these engines live ?
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No I have not I really want to be able to see them in person
There are a number antique engine events in the upper midwest. Most venues have at least one stationary FM prime mover operating and literally
Completing my post - these events have scores of hit and miss/diesel portable units operating.
I had a Model Z like the one at 2:21
Very interesting,thank you for upload,Thump high!
Love the 5 1/4 op at the end
Why is the engine shown on the title page not shown in the video?
It's a modern O.P. engine built in Beloit WI. The Mechanic/Assembler pictured was in the process of installing the piston/ connecting rod assemblies if it was a build. If the opposite he was disassembling for a rebuild. I worked my career there as a machinist
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I wanna put a Fairbanks Morse engine in my Tahoe!
This video is like that diesel engine evolution documentary the more we proceed
good old days...
FIrst on...starting it in a barn....wow..good for your health....i name that evolution.....
Cool.
FBM built engines for submarines also!
Diesel propulsion for subs ended a long time ago. Now smaller versions go in subs to provide power for the systems while a nuclear reactor provides steam for propulsion. I worked my career there in Beloit WI. The shock test for the engines involved lifting a running engine over a steel plated floor and dropping it. It passed if everything kept working. There is no better engine in the world than a submarine rated engine
Wanted to see the OP submarine engine. Not in this video!😾
Beautiful
1:48 Rave music by the pipe organ ♫
I could FEEL that one @1:48 !
3:49 "This engine proved unreliable..." that would explain the blowby then 😬
Good sr
You showed a Fairbanks Morse 38DS 8 1/8 engine attached to this video and it's not in the video. This was the engine on my ship in the Coast Guard. Would have loved to hear it run but it's not included.
Yeah, I clicked to see that also. Is that what is called clickbait?
We're you assigned to the polar star shipset? I worked my career there in Beloit WI as a machinist. We took great pride in creating these mammoth engines for the Navy/ Coastguard ships. The pic at the beginning was an O.P. engine that wasn't used for propulsion. It was for power generation. Propulsion would have come from our Pielstick engines.
@@momtenjillian987 No I was on the Bristol Bay out of Detroit. When the Bouy Tender Bramble was decommissioned they made a multipurpose vehicle out of her by strapping on a barge to her front.
@@jcoghill2 interesting. In the 90's is when the icebreakers were ordered. We were very proud to work at giving our Coast Guard that circumpolar navigation capability
False thumbnail, disappointing and deceptive
1:49 zoomy headers on a 90 year old Diesel engine, hilarious
Hit and miss!
Disappointing seeing my tugboat engine on the cover-picture.and not being in the video. Whats up with that. That engine would turn a aircraft carrier around on a dime by itself. A true workhorse. YTB 785 still survives to this as a civilian tug. She was part of river-rat sqaudron out of viet-nam
Machines today are soulless
Many of this old diesel engine...number of HP is very slow but number of TORQUE is very high
Work for them 30 years
It sounds like my grandpa coughing.
4:55 Jack go stand in front of it!...
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They sound like the 1920ties.
1:03 ...bang!! Whoa. :)
My favorite is the fairbanks morse 32D
They started with trains
2 hp and 6000 foot pounds of torque
1:02 FIREEEE
Can these engines run a generator and make cheap or emergency power? I'd be hooking it up to something to get some benefit from it. They are cool to watch for a few minutes but I wouldn't make a hobby out of it. Seems silly to start a engine to listen to it run and watch a wheel go around. I love the sound of my vee twin motorcycle but then I put it in gear and go someplace.
Emergency yes, cheap eghh maybe.
You gotta remember these are carbureted but only fire the plug based off the governor. So they wind up sucking fuel they don't even burn.
@@horseblinderson4747 that’s not how they work brah
What was old is new again.
They actually bark
These used to cover acres on machinery hill. Non progressive engines banned from Minnesota State Fair
Engines of LSM210 Atule
I must have missed the 12 cylinder
100 years from now our descendants will be watching videos of electric motors.....sarcasm.
OSHA would shit.we never would have developed into a world power
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Great Sound but lousy video
Antike engine
2x speed
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I don’t see how they’re productive.? They JUST sit there and waste fuel. But if you like to sit and watch an engine run or listen to it run go for it I guess. I’m not judging...... too much lol
They're good for running a corn sheller, stationary baller, Syrup press stuff like that well pumps and whatnot anything you need to do intermediary but yeah most of them just sit there not doing work right next to people's baseball card collections and whatnot.