#Diesel Engines and Components

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Federal Supply Classes: A Cornerstone of Military and Aerospace Logistics

In the realm of military and aerospace logistics, the organization and classification of materials are crucial for maintaining operational efficiency and readiness. The Federal Supply Class (FSC) system plays a vital role in this process, providing a standardized method for categorizing and identifying items. This blog delves into the importance of FSCs, highlights key FSC parts, and answers common questions about this essential system.

Understanding Federal Supply Classes

The Federal Supply Class system is a hierarchical structure used to classify items of supply identified under the Federal Cataloging Program. Each FSC is a four-digit code that groups items into categories based on their physical characteristics or functional uses. This classification system facilitates the efficient management of logistics and supply chains, ensuring that the right items are available when and where they are needed.

Key FSC Parts and Their Applications

Aircraft Fixed Wing (FSC 1510) Application: This class includes complete aircraft, specifically fixed-wing aircraft, which are essential for a variety of military operations, including reconnaissance, transport, and combat missions.

Diesel Engines and Components (FSC 2815) Application: This class covers complete diesel engines and their components used in a range of military vehicles and equipment, providing reliable power for ground operations.

Bearings Mounted (FSC 3130) Application: Bearings are critical components in machinery and vehicles, ensuring smooth and efficient operation by reducing friction and wear. Mounted bearings are specifically designed for easy installation and maintenance.

These FSC parts exemplify the diversity and specificity of items cataloged under the Federal Supply Class system, highlighting its comprehensive nature.

Advantages and Importance of the Federal Supply Class System

The FSC system offers numerous benefits, contributing significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of military and aerospace logistics:

Standardization: By categorizing items into specific classes, the FSC system provides a standardized framework that simplifies inventory management and procurement processes.

Improved Logistics: The clear classification of items aids in the swift identification, tracking, and distribution of supplies, reducing delays and enhancing operational readiness.

Enhanced Collaboration: The FSC system is used internationally, facilitating cooperation and interoperability between different branches of the military and allied forces.

Cost Efficiency: Streamlined procurement and inventory management processes lead to cost savings by minimizing waste and optimizing resource allocation.

Addressing Common Questions About Federal Supply Classes

Here are some frequently asked questions about the Federal Supply Class system, along with their answers:

Q: How is an item assigned to a specific FSC? A: Items are assigned to an FSC based on their physical characteristics or functional uses. The classification process involves a thorough analysis to ensure accurate categorization.

Q: Can an item belong to more than one FSC? A: No, each item is assigned to a single FSC that best represents its primary function or characteristic, ensuring clarity and consistency in classification.

Q: How can I find the FSC for a specific item? A: You can use various online databases and tools, such as the one provided by the National Stock Number Shop, to search for and retrieve detailed information about specific FSCs and the items within them.

National Stock Number Shop: Your Trusted Source for FSC Information

In conclusion, the Federal Supply Class system is a cornerstone of military and aerospace logistics, providing a structured approach to the classification and management of supply items. From aircraft to diesel engines and bearings, the FSC system ensures that essential items are accurately identified and readily available. At National Stock Number Shop, we are dedicated to offering comprehensive and up-to-date information on FSCs, helping you navigate the complexities of logistics and supply chain management.

For more information on the Federal Supply Class system and to explore our extensive range of products, visit National Stock Number Shop. Ensure your operations are efficient and effective with reliable data from the National Stock Number Shop.

This blog has aimed to highlight the significance of the Federal Supply Class system, showcasing key parts and their applications. By understanding the role of FSCs, we can appreciate how they contribute to the seamless functioning of military and aerospace logistics.

[mataeeylooey]

Chapter 5: Electra and Components Updates

As Greaseball, Dinah, Rusty, Ashley, Buffy, and Pearl are held up in the shed conversing about what to do next the sound of explosions and gunfire can be heard in the distance.

[peachyygoblin]

are there london revival stex fans here PLEAASEE ive been going insane slowly!!

anyways i have art ive done over the past couple of months to bribe you guys... plspslslspls

my fave is electra btw ><

can you guys tell ive slowly been losing it Xoxoxoxoo

[marleydoesinfactmoo]

THEY CAME!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[kindest-little-fella-in-town]

starl-high-t expreeesssss

aka. some doodles from a slowburn greased lightning/hydrusty highschool au me and my friend have been cooking up… explanations included :^]

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mx. electra is a polite & solitary compsci teacher who’s really damn good at their job, to the point that they have a gang made up of of 2020s-style neurodivergent teenagers from broken homes who stay in their classroom long after school is over to pick their brain about stuff and generally just hang out.

mr. greaseball is this big buff physed teacher who ALSO has a gang of teenage boy jocks that worship the ground he walks on. he’s macho as all hell and spends most of his free time in the school’s gym. whenever he’s not doing that, he’s off flirting with dinner ladies.

they do their best not to interact when they can help it. greaseball’s boisterous nature irritates electra. electra’s effortless charisma irritates greaseball. greaseball’s jocks probably shove electra’s nerds into lockers, and electra’s nerds probably give greaseball’s jocks 0% whenever they mark their tests. it’s slowburn for a reason!

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onto other folks. cb is a super senior who sells drugs to kids in the hallways, and slick is his protégé. she’s an a-grade student who uses her grades and Thrifty Siblings to cover for her crimes, because cb doesn’t really gaf about potential expulsion/grades slipping… he doesn’t even want to graduate. he’s just doing it for the love of the game…

(also, yes, control is the headmaster. yes, he is still, like, 7 years old. it’s funny to imagine ok)

hydra is a good kid. he is semi-involved in the Family Drug Business but doesn’t commit as hard, in part because he is far too busy angsting over the guy he has a crush on (who himself, poor oblivious idiot, is too busy angsting over the popular girl he thinks he has a crush on). he cries about it to mx. electra’s cult; in turn, they all try and wingman him in the stupidest ways possible.

also really random bonus but i wanted to draw it. greasebear Exists, as he does in most of my aus, because i feel like a stuffed animal would fix at least 50% of gb’s attitude problems (and also cause it’s really fucking funny). he keeps losing it around the building and has to find increasingly complicated ways to smuggle it back without people finding out it’s his (because every teacher thinks it belongs to a student, and it would destroy his manly image!). sakaki-azumanga-type shenanigans ensue…

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perhaps i will draw more doodles of other characters if anyone else fucks with this, or write some fic maybe. for now i’m just tossing niche self indulgence in ur faces lol,,,, enjoy🙏‼️:D

[rowansro]

Ok but listen, Electra and the components but Grease and Dinah as giving them tbe most BOMBASTIC side eye

What in the fruitcake have I created with that leccy cult tower

[cbcaboose]

Just realized I never posted this unfinished WIP here lol

[purse-moneychurch]

Anyways. Have the relationship charts made by @kissmel0ser with my personal headcanons (headcannons... I'm unsure). The real reason behind Krupp and Purse not being in the post-2018 versions is that they completely forgot about the big race and went on their honeymoon and left their darling son Killerwatt in the hands of Elektra, who didn't even know about the existence of Killerwatt yet—

[phopollo]

Me: makes a bunch of icons of the cast for my little Stex cartoon to use for some actual lore thing

Me:

Me: misuses my assets immediately

[catenary-chad]

wacky alternate direction for Joule- make her a heated boxcar to complement Volta being a refrigerated one. They’re not as common irl but there was a famous Lionel toy based on them, and the irl basis was just as bright!

They carried potatoes, using onboard stoves to keep them from freezing in New England. Potato hauler sounds hilarious but hear me out: potato batteries are a thing. It even pairs with how citrus products are among the most famous refrigerated car products and also can be used as improvised batteries!

Not entirely sure how much they were electric-hauled irl, but they weren’t far from the northeastern electrified lines so they likely were to some degree.

(as a tragicomic bonus, these cars were lost in a yard somewhere by Penn Central and bankrupted a ton of people when most of the Maine potato crop was ruined, which fits with the popular fanon that Joule has ADHD. Losing things has a notable history with them…)

I’m partial to making the Components based on fast freight, especially if it has ties to the electric lines of the northeast US. It’s a job up there with “subway” that’s almost exclusively the domain of electric trains since the power needed to move heavier trains quickly is very hard to achieve if you’re hauling your own fuel/engine around (see how the CC 40100s were 5-6k horsepower vs “2700” and that’s low vs newer electric engines)

[starlightened64]

Redraws of the designs I made Like two days ago...+plus components and freight and poppa and Belle and Ashley and buffy

[chaosghoulx]

Greaseball: "Can you keep a secret?"

Electra: "Yes, we can keep a secret."

Greaseball: "What?"

Electra: "Yeah, me and my components are like a vault. Noone else will know."

Greaseball: "Wha- no I don't want them to know."

Electra: "If you don't want them to know why are you telling me?"

[greentraingobrrr]

New drawing

[junglefurytrash]

Finished working on my Gacha Life 2 renditions of several members of the StEx cast for future edits and artwork! Think everybody turned out really well.

Probably going to make some of the others like the Coaches and 2024 cast in the future, but that'll depend on if I make edits involving them.

Pic 1: AV Trainyard Squad. Rusty, Pearl, Greaseball, Dinah, and Caboose. Pic 2: Post-2018 Electric Squad. Elektronic, Killerwatt, Socket (2018 Wrench), Zero (2018 Volta), and Dyne (2018 Joule). Pic 3: Pre-2018 Electric Squad. Electra, Krupp, Wrench, Purse, Volta, Joule, and my OC Charge.

[dankengine2005]

Predictions for the Starlight Express 2024 Revival

At the time of me writing this (27/03/2024) the cast for the 2024 revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express has just been revealed, and along with it much discussion and discourse within the Starlight Express community about what the new production will be like, including what songs will remain or have changed, and if any characters have been cut or replaced. So therefore, I have decided to present my predictions as to what the new production will be like, drawing on what we already know and what could be the case, especially since 1984 the way railways in the UK work have changed a lot, so the new production will have to reflect some of these changes, along with changes in what is appropriate or politically correct in modern day Britain.

Keep in mind these are my opinions and predictions and you are welcome to have different ones. Also this is only my predictions and my speculation, so do not take this as official, because it isn’t. For all I know the show could be completely different to what I’m describing. TAKE THESE PREDICTIONS WITH A PINCH OF SALT.

So without further ado, let's get into my predictions. We'll start with the characters, starting with the engines.

In terms of confirmed engine characters we have the main returning ones of Rusty, Greaseball, Electra and Momma. Greaseball seemingly has been gender-swapped, as he is being played by actress Al Knott in her professional debut, with Catherine Cornwall and Jessica Vaux as covers. I find this change actually really interesting, and it kinda fits with Rusty being male and Electra being non-binary, so there is now a varied representation of gender in the main cast of engines. It's also really refreshing to see a female antagonist like Greaseball, who isn't a villain because of any trauma or something like that, she's just a bad guy for bad guy's sake! I'm also glad Momma is making her way to the UK. Momma in Germany is such a fun character regardless of any actress playing her, and I cannot wait to see her in this new version.

Now let's talk about the other supporting engines. We currently have three new characters confirmed for this new show, these being Golden Eagle, Grey Wolf, Blue Horizon and Orange Flash. While at the moment we do not know what these characters will be, I predict these will be new engine characters, possibly as replacements for some of, if not all the National engines (e.g. Turnov, Brexit, Manga, etc) Why do I think this? Because of how the nationals are really rolling stereotypes. While this is less so nowadays, it cannot be denied that there are some elements of the Nationals that likely would not fly in modern Britain. Brexit for example will likely not be included, as public support for Brexit has only gotten less and less, especially because of the way the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom screwed up handling the pandemic, Andrew Lloyd Webber himself even withdrawing his support for the party in 2021. So I reckon an engine representing Brexit likely would not go down well. Turnov even more so, given the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the ongoing war between the two countries. So I reckon that these new engines will be used to replace not just these two, but that all the National engines will be replaced, as that avoids any controversy. Golden Eagle, Grey Wolf and Orange Flash seem more like general names given to trains regardless of countries, so therefore avoiding controversy.

The coaches that have been announced are Pearl, Dinah, Belle and Tassita, who was introduced in the 2017 London Workshop but was never added to the cast in Bochum, her role being given to Carrie. Similar to Greaseball, Tassita's gender has also been changed, making her the first male coach in all of Starlight Express history. Tassita has confirmed to be being played by Renz Cardenas, with Pablo Gomez Jones and Charles Butcher as covers. Again, this is really interesting, and I'm super excited to see how they use Tassita. Something that would be really cool would be if Tassita was representing a transmasc carriage, which makes the message of I Am Me, about being on the same level as the engines, have a deeper meaning in his case. Furthermore, a new character called "Porter" has been confirmed. Initially I thought this could be a new freight character, however a railway porter's job was historically to help passengers on passenger trains, so this makes me think this new character could have something to do with the new passenger train.

Electra's components have mostly been confirmed to be returning, with Killerwatt, Wrench, Volta and Joule, so there isn't too much to say there. I reckon Electra and their components will pretty much be a copy and paste of their current use in Bochum, which I think works well.

Now we come to the freight train. I've saved this one to last in the character section, because I think this is what I have the most to say about. My first prediction is quite a big one, but I think it makes sense given the context of the modern world:

The Rockies will be replaced with new characters.

We already have two new freights confirmed with Lumber and Oil Slick. My bet is that Lumber is going to be a lumber wagon or log car, and Oil Slick will be an oil tanker car, and maybe Porter at a stretch, depending on if they'll be a part of the passenger or freight train. Regardless, I think the Rockies are going to be replaced. This is because the Rockies are boxcars, which on both British Railways and in America are no longer being used, or at least not as much as before. This is because the nature of how real freight trains work has changed since the 1980s. Nowadays instead of individual wagons freight and goods trains are now more often comprised of intermodial containers, as these can easily be transferred from a ship to a train and then a lorry without having to remove the goods from the container. Therefore, it's likely most more modern British audiences who aren't really interested in real railways or trains won't know what a boxcar is, so therefore replacing them with characters which are more clearly based on more general wagons, for example a tanker wagon or log wagon makes more sense.

Flat-Top I literally have no idea about. I don't see any reason why he wouldn't be in the revival, as there isn't really much that can go wrong with him, but I'm still not really sure with him. I feel similar towards Dustin. I don't see why he wouldn't be in the show, especially since hopper wagons used for carrying minerals and bulk commodities like stone or sand are still incredibly common, and are a common sight, so I don't really see any reason why they wouldn't be in the show. I do have one idea that could be the case: The Hip Hoppers return to replace the Rockies, and Lumber and Oil Slick replace Flat-Top and Dustin. That way they still have hopper characters while also adding new updated characters. Oil Slick could possibly be a new villain. They could cause oil slicks on the line and crash other engines.

CB/Caboose I have no idea about, but I fear he won't be in the show. Similar to the Rockies, modern British audiences will likely have no idea what a caboose or a brakevan is because they will never have seen one before, as brake vans aren't used anymore in the UK or America, so why keep a wagon no one knows much about in the show, unless they do something clever and make him cause accidents because he's outdated, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Now for the songs. I reckon most of the songs will remain the same, however we don't really know about songs focused on or performed by certain characters. Freight is very likely going to be modified or changed or replaced with a new song to introduce the new characters. The Rap will likely have a new version, and songs like Wide Smile or Right Place, Right Time seem to be hanging in the balance because of what may or may not happen with the new characters.

It's very evident already that this Starlight Express will be nothing like the previous versions, and we shouldn't expect it to be a copy and paste of Bochum. This will be extremely different, so get ready.

DankEngine2005