This engine was one of several 2000 hp engines that used to pump sewage from the pipes 200' under Boston Harbor to the treatment plant. It was designed to run on #6 fuel oil and gas from the digesters used in the plant. The ran like carp on the gas, so that plan never got implemented. IIRC they tied an ocean going tanker up by the plant and ran off that. All the engines (8, I think, or maybe 10) were replaced with 1500 HP electric motors around 1990.
The Constitution needs to be re-read, not re-written!
If you can't handle Dr. Seuss, how will you handle real life?
Current oil burners: MB GLK250 BlueTEC, John Deere X758
New ride: MB GLS450 - most stately
Gone but not forgotten: '87 F350 7.3, '93 C2500 6.5, '95 K2500 6.5, '06 K2500HD 6.6, '90 MB 350SDL, Kubota 7510
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