600 Horsepower Reciprocating Natural Gas Engine in Action Snow Worthington NW PA 462

[@Ollisaa6095]

it is a beautiful machine with great sound!

[@michaelcorlet2998]

Awsome vidieo and commentary.

[@viewhome8442]

Thank you kindly!

[@HobbyOrganist]

I lived in an 1892 building in NY City that was the power plant for the Houston and Broadway cable car lines, it had four 1200 HP Corless steam engines powered by the building's 12 Heine High pressure boilers, a dynamo that furnished electric power capable of lighting 50,000 incandescent bulbs in the building, and there was a 32' diameter driving wheel- unlike the SF cable cars, this system actually pulled miles of steel cables around under the street, but it had a LOT of problems and a few years later it was electrified, some time later every piece of the equipment was removed and scrapped- 9 of the boilers, the dynamo, the 4 Corless engines and everything was removed probably during the WW2 scrap drive. What a shame, had it still be extant it would have become an amazing one of a kind museum possibility- it was the only one like it when it was built. The building designed by McKim Mead and White had three basements- the machines had their own separate foundation to eliminate vibration to the building above and the offices etc.

[@viewhome8442]

Awesome! Thank you for educating many people about the constant change of technology to improve cities. In the last 30 years I heard of Leap Frogging Technology. That current tech innovators no longer try to make something a step better, newer. Instead they work to replace their competition with a radical departure from existing tech even if it is new. So some friends got tired of that. They left tech businesses to own apartments!

[@vanderleicirodesousa5559]

Beaitful!...it's like a symphony to my ears...BR

[@HobbyOrganist]

Can we get a BRAVO for the overstressed little oiler arm at 8:40 !!!! go arm GO!!!

[@markhinds9126]

Great Grand Father, Ory Brown, worked the Roystone pump station turn of the last century.

[@viewhome8442]

The underground storehouse is apparently still in use with new pumping equipment.

[@rickyburton4642]

That is so mind blowing and it sounds like the rpm could get way too fast in a hurry!

[@viewhome8442]

Nope. Things called governors controlled top speeds.

[@trespire]

THIS is how machinery should be designed and built. Not the s#!t clap planned obsolessance we get today. Edit : Adjusted to slightly gooder language ;)

[@viewhome8442]

Yes and no. Ok to express opinions, but please use good language ;)

[@gordbaker896]

100 tons, 40,000 Cu In, 26,000 ft/lb torque @120 rpm. No OSHA, computers, sensors, EPA, NTA, NSA, metric, chineesium, Pollution controls, or Carbon Footprint. Some were made in 1914. By Smart People who figured stuff out on paper and got it right without changing 'formats' every 5 months. It used 2% of gas compressed.

[@jimnunes6286]

Feet inches miles per hour, this is still AMERICA!!!

[@crazyleyland5106]

I'm British, and prefer inches,feet and miles.

[@王跃恒]

Made in just after year 1900, very impressive, I would say grand and significant! Meanwhile in China Sun Yat-sen just started the up-rising.

[@steveskouson9620]

I do NOT get tired of seeing this engine! A Dodge Hellcat engine has the same HP rating. We won't mention the torque. This is an AMAZING piece of work! steve

[@viewhome8442]

Interesting that huge antique steam tractors have I think 5 HP! Imagine that - tons of steel and water, plus pull and implement all day. Search for Vista Antique Engine Museum in Vista California in San Diego County. So similar for this reciprocating engine maybe over 100 feet long, maybe over 7 feet high has same HP as a Dodge Hellcat engine!

[@johnchadwicktilton]

@@viewhome8442 I was checking out the engine video. it looks to me that they must have done some work on the engine recently. In other videos on startup you can see a lot of blow by during start up. On this video I see pretty much no blow by and the engine seems to be tighter, or maybe it's because the temperature is up that the engine is tighter ?? Just guessing. But it does seem to run great.

[@Sergio-ih6lk]

that's an amazing engine I can watch it for a while I'm trying to figure out how exactly it works I'm used to high performance motorcycles or some cars but this is really interesting oh thanks for some of the explanations just saying

[@ronblack7870]

built in my and my industrial neighbors buildings here in buffalo

[@Rick1885]

6:02 the only place I could think of would be the Tennessee gas pump station in Pigeon along PA 66. It's about 5 or 10 minutes from a town called Marienville in Forest County, but about 30 minutes from Sheffield, if that's the place you're referring to.

[@viewhome8442]

When I talked with one of the best museum docents he said it was the engine I saw in 1980 approx. 6 miles east of Sheffield PA on US Hwy 6. I never thought I would see the whole thing in another place over a hundred miles away. Sheffield is south of Warren PA.

[@viewhome8442]

It came from the natural gas pump station 6 miles east of Sheffield PA on Hwy 6 (Royersford). I walked there one day in my late 20s from my grandmothers - just to walk in the forest next to the road that I was always curious about when a kid. There were 2 elder engineers there with nothing to do, so they gave me a grand tour in the immaculate place that had several engines for staging: from 5 PSI to 15 psi, another for 15-45, another for 45-90 and the last 90-120 PSI. (This I say from a memory of something 35 years ago - the PSI ranges may be a little different, but that kind of general idea.) The station stored 5 million Cu Ft in a pervious strata that was surrounded by impervious rock (all natural storage). It rec'd from a 30 inch pipeline from Louisiana via Kentucky. It distributed throughout northwest Pennsylvania including industry in Erie & Warren (their largest customers). The museum said they got it in pieces approx. 6 years before 2014. Such an amazing coincidence that I saw it before and after! The other engines in Royersford were more modern like Ingersoll-Rand upright straight. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5S3mKR8qauLgMk www.coolspringpowermuseum.org/

[@Kates-dead-goon]

That picture of 30 in a row is likely those in the blower house for Bethlehem Steel. They are all still there, probably awaiting the torch. Most of the engines in the bower house are twin tandems, so there are two rows of cylinders on one crankshaft.

[@morpheusduvall]

The Bethlehem engines are part of the museum, they are to be preserved

[@R3yN_86]

😮

[@winghouse]

And it dosen't need 500 warning labels to operate

[@Kevin-ix4qz]

Is the water flowing at the beginning used for coolant?

[@viewhome8442]

It was a water pump. It pumped into a mountain, 5 million gallons, into an ancient pre-historic aquifer that was was totally encased porous rock. And yes some water was used for cooling.

[@peterparsons3297]

wonder how many years work that did

[@viewhome8442]

Many! From the early 1900s to near the end of the 1900s.

[@hwoods01]

Needs a turbo.

[@viewhome8442]

Ha. Ha.

[@randomworld4662]

What is the usage of this engine ?can any explained me

[@b43xoit]

Compress methane.

[@viewhome8442]

Yes. Good knowledgeable people please reply to good questions. I have been busy for 2 years with changing conditions of work. Now I am doing something new again.

[@nuahtransit5858]

Are these engines for sale or show , 600hp on natural gas is very economic , do u have idea what's the sale price

[@renegadeoflife87]

This engine is installed in a museum, which operates it a few times a year for events. There were others like it for sale up until 2019, when the last one was donated to the WNYGSEA and the remainder destroyed as scrap metal- leaving only 4 of these engines known to still exist.

[@EndeavorsDnB]

It’s a worthington pump but a snow engine

[@viewhome8442]

Look at text in other videos for more descriptions.