creddick
Service Attendant
I'll be going through Indy in a couple of weeks. If I drive by the Beech Grove facility, how much will I be able to see from the street?
Great pix Tom. Too bad the guards are not reliable. My grand father used to tell me "NO" was only half of a four letter word.The main road from I-465 on the south east side of town up into Beech Grove is Emerson Ave. If you take that north you will go right next to the repair facility on your right. It used to be you could park on Emerson and walk up and down the street looking easily into the fenced area. They have now made it no-parking and reconstructed the fence to make it more difficult. I have sometimes parked on a side street on the west side of Emerson and walked back over to the fence line.
Also, going north on Emerson you can turn right on Bellfontaine and it T's into the street the main entrance is on. If you drive east on that street, Garstang (it becomes Cincinnati Rd) you can see a lot of equipment in the back area. But, most of that stuff has been sitting there for years.
At the main entrance you can drive in and park and walk to the Amtrak Police guard shack, explain you just want to look, take pictures, etc. Sometimes they will say OK and you can drive around in the employee parking lot and get some good views. The last few times I have tried that they told me no. Depends on the mood of the officer on the particular day.
Here are links to pictures I have taken there over the years:
10-22-2009
7-11-2007
5-26-2007
4-13-2007
Facility Tour (They let the public in for a tour)
I have heard they have tours now and then in conjunction with a rail group (how about a Gathering in Indy??)Great pictures, thanks for sharing.
BTW, does anyone know when / if Amtrak offers tours of the BG shops? I took one tour many years ago as part of a NMRA regional convention, not sure if any other groups are planing tours in the coming year or so? It'd be interesting to see what they're doing, especially with all the rebuild activities. I know the tour I took, the shop managers were all very open to all questions and really presented the operation well.
Amtrak used to run steam engines?
The tower in the Maintenance Building was used to turn steam locomotives upright in order to clean out their boilers.
They had to get rid of them when they discovered they could not use them at NYP! :lol:
They had to get rid of them when they discovered they could not use them at NYP! :lol:
...and the rest of the system because Amtrak has a strict no smoking policie !
No, black smoke from a diesel engine is generally the result of incomplete combustion. The combustion being incomplete in diesel fuel results in carbon particulates to leave through the exhaust without combining with oxygen to form carbon oxides (monoxide or dioxide) which leaves as, essentially, small bits of ash. All the ash coming through creates the black smoke.i've seen some of there GE violating that policy. they were smoking so bad. what causes a loco to bellow black smoke from the exhaust a faulty turbocharger.
So you tell him no, it cannot be the turbocharger, then you admit it could be the turbocharger.No, black smoke from a diesel engine is generally the result of incomplete combustion. The combustion being incomplete in diesel fuel results in carbon particulates to leave through the exhaust without combining with oxygen to form carbon oxides (monoxide or dioxide) which leaves as, essentially, small bits of ash. All the ash coming through creates the black smoke.i've seen some of there GE violating that policy. they were smoking so bad. what causes a loco to bellow black smoke from the exhaust a faulty turbocharger.
Its an engine in need of either fuel-flow adjustment (decrease fuel, decrease richness, more complete combustion), increase air flow (which could, I guess, be the turbocharger), a combination thereof, or a cleaning of its injectors to better atomize the fuel, increasing the completeness of the burn.
Explain how dirty fuel causes excessive fuel flow.It looks like, and sorta sounds like, a combination of excessive fuel flow and bad atomization, both of which are probably caused by dirty fuel.
if its anything like a carburetor dirty fuel can cause the needle to not seat right allowing the carb to flood with gas.
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