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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Oil Field Engine NewsInteresting EnginesBy Russell FarmerI have a few interesting photos this issue, ones that I have had for a while but haven't had a chance to share. Photo #1 shows an engine I've always thought was very unusual. It's an Ingersoll-Rand model XVG, a two-cylinder, 75 HP engine in a V configuration with a direct-connected gas compressor. This engine was used in a compressor station in the oil field compressing natural gas. It belongs to Doug Thornhill, Rossburg, Ohio, and Doug affectionately refers to this as his "big Harley" engine. photo #1: Doug Thornhill's "big Harley" is actually a 75 HP Ingersoll-Rand Model XVG two-cylinder engine. Photo #2 shows an eight-cylinder, 1,000 HP De La Vergne gas engine. To give you some perspective of its size, that's me standing next to it, and I'm about six foot tall. ...819 of 3086 characters shown.
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