"The Indian Grave Drainage District in Quincy, Illinois still has three operational Model 32 engines, and three engines are on standby as back-up power generators in Delta, Colorado."

That's impressive and disturbing at the same time. I know the old stuff is often more reliable and cheaper to acquire, but surely a surplus tank engine from the boneyard would be easier to maintain.

This beast maintains her appeal for a few reasons-The ones that are left still run as they did when they were manufactured(they're brick-shithouses in the durability/reliability categories) and like most simply-designed diesel engines maintain their dependability-Combine these with the enthusiastic appeal of our collective industrial heritage and the vibrating ground beneath her pad when she's purring and you have a recipe for an unquenchable, historically relevant enthusiasm.

Did I mention they'll run forever??

USED FOR WHAT THING?!

" in power stations, manufacturing plants, ice plants, flour mills, rock crushing plants, cotton gins, seed oil mills, textile mills, irrigation and drainage pumping stations, and many other locations."

I dont wanna fkn search through tens of rows on an external link to understand WHAT these things drove..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_engine
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042515544

I'm no mechanic, but that thing seems to be misfiring and sounds like sh!t.

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