I will admit – this is another filler post. I have all of the data and stuff together to start the EMD 567 LST engine post, I just have not had the time to sit down and put my thoughts together at once. So, I scanned this issue of Winton News as a filler. Enjoy! Click each image to enlarge.
What’s neat is that I also have an original Winton print for the engine as well! Hard to beat an original 1930’s B&W print.
Vintage Diesel Design 
Great work!
By the way, great personal interest in your upcoming LST 567A info. My late father was a sergeant in the US Army 1st Calvary, survived sinking by one Japanese torpedo off Luzon on February 10, 1944 onboard the LST 577. He was one of about 50 survivors on the bow, the ship broke in two immediately and sank, >200 men lost including the entire Navy crew. I believe the engine room access was only via a vertical ladder tunnel.
Preston Cook was kind enough to provide me info on the two engines:
US LST-577:
Starboard Engine EMD 12-567ATLS S/N N-1428 Port Engine EMD 12-567ATLP S/N N-1429
I worked at GM-EMD 1974-1977 and by time I left was responsible for maintenance engineering of all production engine and turbo test cells, many of which were built early in WWII.
Re the Winton at Union, IL in the Illinois Railway Museum. I have been on the ASME history and heritage committee and tried to get that engine declared an ME landmark, but was turned down because the Pioneer Zephyr train at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a similar Winton engine. The trainset engine is not the original but was installed as a replacement engine, taken from a Winton-powered switching locomotive. So the surviving one of the two “first” Winton 201 engines sits in a shed corner at Union.
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