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  2. Steam locomotive components - Wikipedia

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    Connecting rod / Main rod Steel arm that converts the reciprocating motion of the piston into a rotary motion of the driving wheels. The connection between piston and main rod is a crosshead, which slides on a horizontal bar behind the cylinder. [2] [5] [3]: 55 Piston rod Connects the piston to the cross-head. [2] [3]: 61 Piston

  3. EMD SD45T-2 - Wikipedia

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    The SD45T-2 is a model of diesel-electric locomotive built by EMD for the Southern Pacific Railroad.Like the later SD40T-2 it is colloquially nicknamed a tunnel motor. 247 total units (including the original EMD/SP joint venture working Prototype) were produced from February 1972 to June 1975, including 84 for SP's subsidiary Cotton Belt.

  4. Control rod - Wikipedia

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    Control rods are usually used in control rod assemblies (typically 20 rods for a commercial PWR assembly) and inserted into guide tubes within the fuel elements. Control rods often stand vertically within the core. In PWRs they are inserted from above, with the control rod drive mechanisms mounted on the reactor pressure vessel head. In BWRs ...

  5. North American T-2 Buckeye - Wikipedia

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    A T-2A of VT-7 on USS Antietam in the early 1960s T-2A Two-seat intermediate jet training aircraft, powered by a 3,400-lb (1542-kg) thrust Westinghouse J34-WE-46/48 turbojet, original designation T2J-1 Buckeye, 217 built

  6. EMD 710 - Wikipedia

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    The EMD 710 is a line of diesel engines built by Electro-Motive Diesel (previously General Motors' Electro-Motive Division). The 710 series replaced the earlier EMD 645 series when the 645F series proved to be unreliable in the early 1980s 50-series locomotives which featured a maximum engine speed of 950 rpm.

  7. Connecting rod - Wikipedia

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    A connecting rod, also called a 'con rod', [1] [2] [3] is the part of a piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank, the connecting rod converts the reciprocating motion of the piston into the rotation of the crankshaft. [4] The connecting rod is required to transmit the compressive and tensile forces from ...

  8. Rod end bearing - Wikipedia

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    A rod end bearing, also known as a heim joint (North America) or rose joint (UK and elsewhere), is a mechanical articulating joint. Such joints are used on the ends of control rods, steering links , tie rods , or anywhere a precision articulating joint is required, and where a clevis end (which requires perfect alignment between the components ...

  9. Junker (roller coaster) - Wikipedia

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    Junker is a steel roller coaster located at PowerPark in Alahärmä, Western Finland. When opened in 2015 it was Gerstlauer 's third Infinity Coaster installation after The Smiler at Alton Towers and Karacho at Tripsdrill .