10 Big Old Fairbanks Morse Engines Sound That Will Shake Your Soul 

Fairbanks Morse engines are like musical instruments, they sound alive, I could put this on loop and fall asleep

Sitting in my living room chair grinning like I've got a roomful of puppies...I love these old engines.

Im a lifelong engineer over 45 years, my wife cannot understand how I can fall asleep listening to these big engines - I told her its 'Machine Music'!

These are just beautiful machines from a time when quality and engineering meant something. Ah, the smell of diesel exhaust in the morning.

You can keep your electronic ignition and computer run sensors. I can listen to these engines all day long.

In a post apocalypse age these wil become very valuable.

Those old dude’s in coveralls are a dying breed

My Grandfather's ship was upgraded to a Fairbanks-Morse 3 or 4 banger. I never sailed on that ship but, my father did and, the only description I had about the engine was, the regular thumping/humming sound so, here I am, listening to what the ship engine room sounded like. Similar to the one @ 12:43 or @ 15:09. Thanks for sharing.

My uncle had a fishing boat with an old Fairbanks engine. He showed me the original advertisement for the engine, and all it said was “Jesus, the light of the world”

A Symphony of Iron and steel.

Wow these old engines are amazing and for their age they make “ in most cases “ less smoke than the majority of Russian T 72 tanks. And Yes their sound is almost hypnotic.

Nothing beats a 2 stroke. These big engines are built like small 2 stroke petrol engines with no valves in tge cylinder (s), crankcase pressure scavenging, individual reed valves to the crankcases, and transfer passages to the cylinder intake ports. Super simple, the way a diesel SHOULD be! Great engines! 😋

These engine look alive, breathing fire.

Absolutely astounding, the future of science looks brighter than ever.

Beautiful sound good old maschines.

Why are the negative comments at the beginning? These machines are fantastic.

Nice to see the old "safety sandals" in use!

That big twin at around 9 min, is the engine that rotates the earths core.

They sing so so nice 🥰

They are pieces of art

For those asking about the amount of smoke these give off, these are most if not all, hit and miss diesels, naturally aspirated, no forced air induction, you are going to get alot of soot and roll some coal from inefficient burn.

Dravo Shipyard at Pittsburgh, PA used to install pairs of military surplus Fairbanks Morse 2,200 HP engines on their river boats that had dual over and under crankshafts with two opposing pistons per cylinder. They were of lower RPM with good efficiency for that purpose.

Работал на тепловозе ТЭ3 . Там стояли копии судовых дизелей фирмы Fairbanks Morse . Очень надёжна конструкция !

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

Just beautiful machines !!

these old engines are just awesome. are they efficient? hell no, they're thermal efficiencies are somewhere below 40% usually. but they just work all day long with no problems and usually don't care about how nasty the fuel is. wish i had a small single cylinder one of these.

Ah - beauty is truly in the eyes and ears of the beholder!

Three cylinders have the best sound.

I love the sound of the old radial engines as well..nap time when that comes on... BUT,I also love the sound of machine gun fire and such to fall asleep with......loudly going on t.v. Drives my neighbor loopy...

Very impressive. One of the more impressive things to me is that it took a 24,000 lb. engine to generate 75 hp, and it ran so much. 🙂

I've ran 2 a 6cylinder and a 20 with 2.5ft bore,100hp electric turbo.

A symphony of Iron and Steel.

This and radials 👍

Steam punk after steam! And before it was stylish LOL

Hear how well it started with a peacock jammed in each cylinder 😂❤

Engine number 5 in the clip is the sound you will hear in heaven everyday.

Gud mechanical techno vid 😊🎉

It would be interesting to know some specs and history of these beautiful monster power plants. Thanks, Boe

Beautiful Engineering masterpiece Amazing

put one of those FairBanks Morse engine in your mastercraft wake boat and see how is does, enough torque to flip the boat over witha 6 foot prop.

Like the Mod.Y the most

Where are these located? I would love to see in person

Be Still going strong in another 100 years.. when everything else is dead...😂😂 they would sound better if loaded but..

Like to see any F/M Submarine genarators The 8 an1/8 or 5 an1/4 , 2 stroke too.

I wonder how different they sound when they are running under full load?

The big engine where it used?

Add: -- 18min -- 29sec

Add a stamp mill for enhanced sound.

I assume they used these engines as electricity generators.

Greta is pissed.

Someone show this to Greta

I cant hear the engine sound as the exhaust noise drowns them out.

I had a 1 cyl 9 hp that I loved till it was stolen

Boy! Talk about the "carbon footprint"!

crappy video of a really nice engine, add.

Hobby carbon production.

... these brutes produce so much torque they could pull Jupiter out of its orbit...

I don't see any coolant. Short runs only?

I watched this in horror, why are all these engines smoking like crazy? I’ve seen engines on display similar like those in this video in person. I understand that a cold start with a lot of extra lube is smoky. But why not a few video shots when they are not smoking. Or are they immediately stopped again because they are not cooled? Sorry, as an old engine enthusiast there was nothing to be liked in this video.

The fact that we are still amusing ourselves with air-fouling activities like this, shows me we still don't get it: our air, water and soil are getting completely polluted by our activities. And yet we persist! Of course, various car races, tractor pulls, demolition derbies, etc., etc., are far more polluting than seen in this video. Still, when will we realize that all non-necessary fossil fuel combustion has to stop!

BORING BORING BORING SEEN ONE SEND THEM ALL