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were the selling dealer, has given Peterson high vis- ibility within Caterpillar’s global marine market.”
A year later, the Earl Redd departed on its first tow, from Seattle through the Panama Canal to the Gulf and back. “We installed Cat Connect re- mote-monitoring equipment that sends data from the engines and the SCR [selective catalyst reduc- tion after-treatment equipment] back to Caterpil- lar via satellite so they could monitor them live,” explains Wiemann. “They wanted to keep a close eye on how all the equipment performed so they could make changes if they needed to.” In March 2016, Peterson’s California marine salesman, Rich Floyd, landed the first two production 3516Es for Baydelta’s Caden Foss—being built in Vancouver,
Washington by JT Marine. That made Peterson the selling dealer for two of the first Tier 4 vessels in the world.
Being on the cutting edge of such projects shows that Peterson is leading the way for Caterpillar in the new Tier 4 marine engine market. It also points to Peterson’s lifelong determination to carve out opportunities whenever and wherever they arise. Today, across the diesel-powered spectrum, en- gines are as clean as they can feasibly get. With the new urea-injection systems on Tier 4 finals, there’s nothing left to give. That is, until somebody comes up with a flux capacitor that can create horsepow- er, or an all-electric engine.
The Earl Redd was built at Diversified Marine in Portland in 2017
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