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 Post subject: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 8:39 pm 

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Back in 2018 I wrote a 100 page technical paper on the EMD 567 diesel engines. It sat around for many years, Covid came and went, I got too old and sick to deal with publishing, so now Barriger Library is posting parts of it:

It will be posted a few pages at a time..

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 11:41 pm 

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Are there, or will there bee,subsequent volumes in the "Southcoast Locomotive Works" technical history series?

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
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201A is 80 percent done, 645 is 50 percent. Whether I can finish them is another issue...........................

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 12:45 pm 

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I'll be looking forward to them all.

Can there be one for the 710?

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 1:21 pm 

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710 photos were collected, text was not started.

Several people asked by e-mail why the hobby press did not publish this. Diesel engines outside of locomotives don't get much attention. There is little understanding in the hobby that the number of living former employees of EMD as a book market exceeds NRHS or R&LHS total membership.

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 1:25 pm 

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About 20 pages into the posting now, the beginning of 567U production.

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 10:17 pm 

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During WWII, most USN ships with large GM diesels had Cleveland (formerly Winton) engines. The closest to an EMD 567 were the Cleveland 248 and 278A. (Cleveland used consecutive numbers in the Winton sequence while EMD used single cylinder displaement.) The 248 and 278A were slightly larger and had a different Vee angle.

The USN ordered about 1000 LST's (Landing Ship Tank, 347 feet long) with two 12-567 each. Not all were built when the war ended and many 567's were sold as surplus to savvy tugboat operators.


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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 10:23 pm 

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There is at least one movie that was evidently shot using 'war-surplus' LSTs where you can clearly hear the EMD engines as one of them is "sunk". Got me upset to think about it -- as much of a waste as sacrificing steam locomotives!

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:27 am 

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EJ Berry wrote:
During WWII, most USN ships with large GM diesels had Cleveland (formerly Winton) engines. The closest to an EMD 567 were the Cleveland 248 and 278A. (Cleveland used consecutive numbers in the Winton sequence while EMD used single cylinder displaement.) The 248 and 278A were slightly larger and had a different Vee angle.

The USN ordered about 1000 LST's (Landing Ship Tank, 347 feet long) with two 12-567 each. Not all were built when the war ended and many 567's were sold as surplus to savvy tugboat operators.


Without trying to hiack this or take away from Preston's fantastic 567 book (cant wait to read it all) - I did a 4 part series on the 567ATL engine used in the LST's last year (with another part to come yet). https://vintagedieseldesign.com/2023/09 ... -wwii-lst/

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 2:56 pm 

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Posted 567A today. Did my own editing and layout work, am re-checking sections of the paper as I go along.

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Sun Dec 15, 2024 11:19 am 

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All 100 pages posted. This has as many views on Flickr now as the print run of some recent railroad books.

Looked through the 201A book, it has a long way to go and there is not much incentive to work on it. Unfortunately this is getting to be a long time ago and very little interest.

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 Post subject: Re: The EMD 567 Diesel Engines
PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 8:48 pm 

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Overmod wrote:
Are there, or will there bee,subsequent volumes in the "Southcoast Locomotive Works" technical history series?


Tried this week to edit 201A book. With current limited typing ability, not feasible. May elect to post incomplete document. There is unfortunately very little demand for books about diesel engines.

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