Nice piece of kit! I was a marine engineer in the 60s and 70s and one ship I had, had a triple expansion engine. You could tell it was working at anything over 40 RPM as the ship used to oscillate with the engine..... even the cook could tell you how many revs we were doing!
Would be nice to have it hooked up to a dyno to add some load, a big generator might be able to facilitate electrical power to the museum once the engine is running...
@albinklein7680 I Have A 1989 Video Of SIX Of These Gigantic Snow Engines Running Under Load, At The Heath Pump Station About 22-Miles Away On The Other Side Of Brookville. When The Main Waukesha Diesel Engine Was Down For Repairs That Summer, And The 6-SNOW Engines Had To Be Activated Again While The Repairs Were Being Made. Something That Will Never Be Seen Again...
@davidrussell8689. You Should Have Heard SIX Of Them Running At Once At The Heath Pumping Station Back In 1989. When The Waukesha Diesel Engine Was Down For Repair, And The SNOW Engines Were Activated To Take Its Place. It Sounded Like A LOUD Clattering Factory Building Going On Out In The Woods...
@@niklasclaro9793 You Should Have Heard SIX Of Them Running At Once. Sounding Like An Indian Tom-Tom Beat From Their Exhaust In The Valley. And A LOUD Clattering Factory Inside The Building Where They Were Operating. NEVER To Be Heard Again...
You Should Have Heard SIX Of Them Running At The Same Time Inside Of The Heath Pumping Station Back In 1989. LOUDLY Clattering Away Like A Noisy Factory Building Out In The Woods. NEVER To Be Heard Again...
I was thinking about doing an LS engine swap in my 1979 Corvette, but an 86,800 CI engine sounds kind of appealing. Curb weight could be an issue for the suspension though.. =/
Don't Worry. That Engine Will Be There A LONG TIME. Because It Took About 1-Million Dollars And Several YEARS To Pour The Concrete Mountings, Assemble The Engine And Construct The Building Around It. It's Actually Located At The COOL SPRING POWER MUSEUM In Cool Spring PA. A Huge Grounds With LOTS Of Antique And Hit & Miss Engines, Not Far Off I-80 Just South Of Brookville PA.
I Have A 1989 Video Of SIX Of Those Gigantic SNOW Engines Running At Heath Pump Station On The Other Side Of Brookville PA., About 22-Miles Away. While The Main Wakeshaw Diesel Engine Was Down For Repairs That Summer, And The SNOW Engines Had To Be Activated. The Exhaust From Them Sounded Like Indian TOM-TOM Drums Pounding In The Valley, And The Building Inside Sounded Like A LOUD Clattering Factory Out In The Woods Indeed. Something That Will NEVER Be Seen Again... That SNOW Engine Was Said To Have Cost 1-Million Dollars To Pour The Concrete Mountings, Assemble The Engine And Construct The Building Around It, That Took Several YEARS Before It Could Operate. The Entire COOL SPRING ENGINE MUSEUM, Several Building Full Of Antique Engines And Grounds Covers A Few Acres Just A Few Miles South Of Brookville Pennsylvania. Which Is Off Of Either Exit 78 Or 81, Along I-80 In Western Pennsylvania. And Has A Family Oriented Event For A Few Days Before Fathers Day Weekend Every Year. With Food Vendors, A Flea Market Type Atmosphere To Pirchase Parts Needed, And Other Exhibiters That Tow Their Own Restored Antique Hit & Miss Engines In For Display As Well. And There Are Permanent Exhibits Showing How These Engines Were Used In Oil Well Pumping, Municipal Water Works Pumping, And Even In Farm Use Applications. An Event That NO Mechanic Or Engine Guy Should Ever Pass Up Seeing...
Beautiful machine, but it's a shame that every old engine in these shows always only running at idle speed with no load. I can imagine this beast at high speed and full load will sound like an fucking earthquake!
65-70 RPM was the normal operating range for this type of engine. This particular engine is rated to produce 600HP at 100RPM, generating 31,500 ft-lbs of torque.
@@artgoat Yes that may be, but still with no load. An engine always sounds lame with no load. Compare the sound reving a car in neutral to while it's accelerating. The engine sounds 100 times stronger when torque is applied... This monster-engine spinning at 100RPM while producing the full 600PS load would sound amazing!
@@Setsuna_Kyoura It might be somewhat louder, but consider, unlike a Toyota Corolla engine, this one weighs two hundred eighty thousand pounds. That's a lot of mass damping down vibrations. It also already compresses the incoming gas to 450PSI before it enters the combustion chamber. That's already halfway to the combustion chamber pressure of a car at full throttle, and that's BEFORE ignition. Just running as it is, there is already 114,000 pounds of pressure on the piston. I've heard big pumping station 2-stroke diesel engines operating at full output, and it honestly wasn't amazingly different. More noise when they throttle up, but once they're running at design speed under load, they smooth out. I'd be curious to hear it under full load, too, but I have a feeling I might be underwhelmed.
@stuartdady I Have A 1989 Recording Of SIX Of These Giants Running At The Same Time At Heath Pump Station. When Their Wakeshaw Diesel Engine Was Down For Repairs That Summer, And The SNOW Pack Was Reactivated To Do Their Job Once Again As A Backup. Sounding Like A LOUD Clattering Factory Out In The Woods. Something NEVER To Be Seen Or Heard Again...
NOPE. Simply The Best Design Technology That Was Available At The Time Over 100-Years Ago. You Should Read The History Of How They Got SIX Of These Giants Up Into The Woods At Heath Pumping Station, One Section At A Time. Assembled Them On Site, And Constructing A Building Around Them. Amazing Indeed...
@@crazyleyland5106 NOPE. There Were Six At Health Pump Station Alone. And Natural Gas Companies Used Them To Move Pipeline Gas Around All Over The Country During The 20th Century...
@@crazyleyland5106 YES.. SNOW Made Various Sizes For Different Applications. But The 600hp Was The One That Natural Gas Suppliers Here In Central And Western Pennsylvania Desired The Most.
Total displacement is 86,800 cubic inches or 1,423 liters. The rated output of the engine is 600 hp at 100 RPM, which yields a torque value of 31,500 ft-lbf. (From the museum's website)
It's A 4-Cylinder Engine. Two Piston "Disks" On That Long Rod, With A Combustion Chamber On Each Side Of The Two Piston "Disks"... You'll Probably Have To Research It More To Better Understand How It Operates...
What is sad is the story of the owner of Snow Engine. Back in 1930's when the company failed during the great depression.... Lets just say mister snow in fact could not fly from the 56th floor window like most assumed.......
And this monster can be replaced with 3x200hp modern car engines (120 tons vs ~1 ton of weight), or compare it to a modern turbine gas engine (50 000 hp)
There is really no comparison to these big engines. They were meant to do hard work through torque and not built for speed. This on I believe is around 600 hp. But the torque is around 80,000 lbs at only 100 rpms. That's incredible to even think about. You'd get nowhere near that with your 3 little turbine engines.
@@420frankp say that to all the ships using gas turbines these days 😅 much more efficient. There is a reason we dont use such behemoth engines anymore.
