saddamsnightmare
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March 5th, 2014. (See post No. 6 below for the requested photographs)
Gents:
Not saying that its going to happen, but...... Depending on where my next posting is likely going to be, would either a 1905/1950 U.S.Army Corps of Engineers Diesel Tugboat, or a 1944 built ex U.S.Army "ST" diesel tugboat qualify as a military vehicle for purposes of a forum slot on here?
I figure the only way I am going to catch up to Fleet Admiral Kenny is to get a fleet, er, a vessel, with military provenance in its history. The WWII vessel was fairly elegant for a design intended to last 5 years, and the 1905 vessel has much longer more elegant hull lines in keeping with the fact that it was a steam tugboat originally built in the Northeast.
One uses an EMD 16-567 diesel, the other an EMD 8-567 diesel, both familiar to most railroaders as road-switcher or switcher power-plants, the 567 is the Cubic Inch Displacement of each cylinder with one being about 1600 and the other 800 HP. The WWII vessel seems most intact in the interior as regards fittings and woodwork, the older vessel less so, as no doubt it underwent major modification in the conversion from steam to diesel. Still, amazing when you think that the older vessel was already 2 or 3 years old when the Titanic met up with the iceberg.
Let's hope I end up somewhere warm and near the coast so that I can push us into a marine forum, as you all do seem to be resistant to a military railroad one......![Wink ;-) ;-)](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Gents:
Not saying that its going to happen, but...... Depending on where my next posting is likely going to be, would either a 1905/1950 U.S.Army Corps of Engineers Diesel Tugboat, or a 1944 built ex U.S.Army "ST" diesel tugboat qualify as a military vehicle for purposes of a forum slot on here?
I figure the only way I am going to catch up to Fleet Admiral Kenny is to get a fleet, er, a vessel, with military provenance in its history. The WWII vessel was fairly elegant for a design intended to last 5 years, and the 1905 vessel has much longer more elegant hull lines in keeping with the fact that it was a steam tugboat originally built in the Northeast.
One uses an EMD 16-567 diesel, the other an EMD 8-567 diesel, both familiar to most railroaders as road-switcher or switcher power-plants, the 567 is the Cubic Inch Displacement of each cylinder with one being about 1600 and the other 800 HP. The WWII vessel seems most intact in the interior as regards fittings and woodwork, the older vessel less so, as no doubt it underwent major modification in the conversion from steam to diesel. Still, amazing when you think that the older vessel was already 2 or 3 years old when the Titanic met up with the iceberg.
Let's hope I end up somewhere warm and near the coast so that I can push us into a marine forum, as you all do seem to be resistant to a military railroad one......
![Wink ;-) ;-)](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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