Cooper Bessemer Type 26 Pipeline Compressor Engine

installed in 1942

still running in Oct. of 2009

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Autos & Vehicles

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• MOV03754

[jcoopercj7]

its in LA

[Fredthornton]

Like out of the comic books with the strange shapes, pipes, wonderful sound.

[stormlord5500]

Great vid. The old horizontal large gas engines are in a league of their own. Slow speed but, insane amounts of torque, and great ruggedness. The look and sound just perfect. Maybe inefficient but who cares, I sure as hell don't!!!!!!:)

[dbowmaster1]

Brings back many found memories. Great friends, good times, entertaining stories.

I grew up around these (some older) at Ogden, Ia., Beatrice, Ne., Palmyra, Ne., and many other compressor stations.

Thanks for the memories.

[DeserTBoB93535]

If you look at the Henry Ford Museum collection of clips on here, you'll see an early version of the same engine in Ford's Highland Park Plant, powering the factory to make Model Ts.  Ford was VERY proud of it, but never gave credit to Cooper-Bessemer for building the engine. It ran on coal gas.

[caterpillarnut]

Do you happen to know where this compressor station is located? Is it still running these days or has it been shut down?

[otef434]

@tadpole482 Does Ogden have such a station? Would like to drive on down and take a look-see.

[bonzo874]

all those great engines.........

[72hotrod]

I think its cool how at about 54 sec the camera picks up our timing mark on the flywheel. Can't see that with the naked eye.

[headpickle]

Cool picture, I got to tour a station with one of these (but they'd already upgraded to a new compression station). I think the company I work for has one station left that uses this kind of compression.