Fairbanks Morse 25HP Mining Y Diesel Oil Engine

Scale model FM engine based off a prototype on display in Wallace Idaho.  Side flywheels extend below the base of the engine.  In operation this machine would have been mounted on a sturdy steel frame (not included) or bolted to the shop floor  with cutouts in the floor to allow the wheels to extend below the floor.

"This Fairbanks-Morse one cylinder engine is a 25 horsepower "Y" diesel engine.  It was manufactured in the early 1920's, weighs about 7200 pounds, and runs on most oil based fuels.  It was last used at the Buffalo-Idaho mine and mill near Golden, Idaho located on the south fork of the Clearwater River in Central Idaho.  

Fairbanks-Morse engines, smaller or larger, provided reliable power to operate rock crushers, stamp mills, electrical generators, water pumps and air compressors.  This engine powered a line shaft that provided power to a rock crusher that fed the crushed gold ore to a stamp mill. "

--Plaque at the Silver History Site in Wallace Idaho, displayed near a prototype of this engine.