Paul R Tregurtha Engine Room Tour Video 1 - Great Lakes Freighter

Paul R Tregurtha Engine Room Tour Video 1

[@gtpneel]

As someone who lives in Indiana, is fascinated with the great lake freighters, use to work for a CAT dealer as a power systems tech, and now works for a Cogeneration (CHP) landfill gas generator facility, this is right up my ally.

[@ldstephey]

What a great series of videos. Thank you so much for doing this. The Chief Engineer is wonderful! What a guy.

[@Finnmarken91]

Yea he seems cool as hell!

[@wyomingadventures]

There's a lot to these big ships. Love how it works!

[@fletcher3913]

Great tour. Thank you.

[@yoyo762]

All the people have to be very technical and knowledgeable. These are not simple toys. They are mechanical monsters.

[@VinzentDk]

Interesting that a ship of this size has controllable pitch props. Also interesting that ballasting is done from the engine room and not the bridge or deck office.

[@mattharper588]

I like how the dude is wearing his ear protection around his neck will definitely have hearing loss later in life like I have

[@vibewithmike]

I love the PRT.

[@christisgod3354]

Really cool stuff. That is the second loudest room in the world.

[@johnriley7053]

Wonder how they measure turbo RPM on the mains? I'm sure an algorithm can calculate it, but I guess they could have a water cooled hall effect.

[@electric7487]

Or an optical encoder.

[@ethanpeters483]

A lot different than the engine room on my old destroyer escort , spacious compared to my ship

[@markhuotari3060]

thats what keeps the ship running and moving

[@stonecoldfan3167]

Once the season begins back up how long does it take to start that mammoth up again.

[@Reaglesracing44_]

How did you get to stay on the ship and do the tours???

[@DanielSutfin]

Very interesting does anyone know how big the screws or propellers are on a ship this size?

[@corystansbury]

17-foot, 6-inches or 5.33 meters.

[@yoyo762]

@@corystansbury Huge.

[@nesetceri]

What are they saying ??

[@jamesfunk7614]

Sorry, but the dialog is useless to me. I can't understand anything said because of the noise.

[@Comrade_Tokoloshe]

That was disappointing. I expected to see the engine. All I saw was some itsy bitsy generators and control panels.

[@rodneywroten2994]

wow you don't have to wear hard hats?

[@eliasaxelson1411]

2xV16 engine?

[@electric7487]

No, that's the Roger Blough. Paul R. Tregurtha's main engines are 2 4-stroke inline 6's, each producing 8100 HP at 514 RPM.

[@richosterland3507]

*5

[@robertallen5686]

..almost useless, as one can't hear the conversation very well above the noise of the machinery..

[@wyomingadventures]

Not a problem for me. Put some headphones on.