• Diesel engine runaway is an occurrence in diesel engines, in which the engine draws excessive fuel from an unintended source and overspeeds at higher...
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    valve fitted to certain diesels, such as fire appliances and generators on oil and gas platforms, to prevent diesel engine runaway). The fuel-free air mix...
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  • The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated...
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    A diesel particulate filter (DPF) is a device designed to remove diesel particulate matter or soot from the exhaust gas of a diesel engine. Wall-flow diesel...
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    A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed...
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  • consequences Diesel engine runaway, the impossibility to turn off a diesel engine fueled by an excess of its own lubricating oil The Runaway (1917 film)...
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  • Overspeed (redirect from Overspeed (engine))
    Most unregulated engines will overspeed if power is applied with no or little load.[citation needed] In the event of diesel engine runaway (caused by excessive...
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    Redline (category Engine technology)
    intake air, or a broken oil seal in a turbocharger. This is known as diesel engine runaway, and can be stopped by blocking the air intake, or opening the decompression...
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  • Engine and James and the Diesel Engines, are dedicated to James. James first appeared in The Railway Series in the 1946 book Thomas the Tank Engine....
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  • Diesel engine runaway: Diesel engine power is governed by the amount of fuel supplied. Excessive pressure in the crankcase can force mist of engine oil...
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    the runaway had slowed to 12 miles per hour (19 km/h), CSX trainmaster Jon Hosfeld ran alongside the train, climbed aboard, and shut down the engine. The...
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  • 18, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2025. Runaway of Suburban Electric Passenger Train 5264 and collision with Diesel Locomotive Hauled Passenger Train 8141...
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  • Fire Engine Deep Freeze James is one of the only engines who still does not trust diesels, which is not helped by the visit of a pompous diesel engine. He...
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    Turbocharger (redirect from Turbo engine)
    system causing blue-gray smoke or a runaway diesel. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Turbochargers. Boost gauge Engine downsizing Exhaust pulse pressure...
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    each intake stroke in petrol/gasoline engines does not apply to vehicles equipped with diesel engines, as such engines are quite "free-running". However Clessie...
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    EMD SD45 (category Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States)
    six-axle diesel-electric locomotive class built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1965 and 1971. It has an EMD 645E3 twenty-cylinder engine generating...
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    television by Britt Allcroft. The series centers on various anthropomorphic engines as well as other vehicles living on the fictional Island of Sodor. Initially...
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    The Class 67 locomotives are a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives that were built for the English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) between 1999 and...
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  • ROKR E6, a 2006 multimedia phone model Nokia E6, a smartphone EMD E6, a diesel locomotive LNER Class E6, a class of British steam locomotives PRR E6, an...
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    generation diesel while power, torque and diesel NVH were improved significantly. This system provides greater output than the older engine, with 241 hp...
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  • 1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck (category Runaway train disasters)
    train arrived in New Haven, a New Haven electric locomotive replaced the diesel along with adding several passenger cars from Springfield for the run to...
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    Coaster was at Camelot Theme Park in England. The "Dragon Flyer" ride had diesel engine in the front of the themed dragon and was driven around the track by...
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    drivers on the cab design. The locomotives utilize a GE PowerHaul P616 diesel engine rated at 2,750 kW (3,690 hp). The locomotive meets EU Tier IIIa emission...
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    Herald. 5 July 1940. p. 7. "Guard Killed by Runaway Trucks". The Canberra Times. 23 May 1951. p. 1. "Diesels Seen As Threat To Railway Towns". The Canberra...
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    accelerates breakdown. The cycle rapidly escalates (i.e., thermal runaway) until an engine wall rupture or other mechanical failure occurs, and it persists...
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    Train (section Diesel)
    [globalize] Diesel locomotives are powered with a diesel engine, which generates electricity to drive traction motors. This is known as a diesel–electric...
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    CIÉ 181 Class (category Diesel–electric locomotives of Ireland)
    the 181 class have been withdrawn, the first being 191 in 1991 after a runaway incident at Clonsilla; it was later scrapped in 1998. In their final days...
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    EMD SD40T-2 (category Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States)
    United States. The SD40T-2 is equipped with a 16-cylinder EMD 645E3 diesel engine producing 3,000 horsepower (2,240 kW). 312 SD40T-2s were built for three...
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    EMD SD40-2 (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    The EMD SD40-2 is a 3,000-horsepower (2,200 kW) C-C diesel–electric locomotive built by EMD from 1972 to 1989. The SD40-2 was introduced in January 1972...
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    alongsed the T210 instead. Engines include a 1.8 L 7A-FE petrol, the 2.0 L 3S-FE petrol and the 2.2 L 3C-TE turbo-diesel. The All-Trac four-wheel drive...
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