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Friday, August 1, 2014
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Saw Mallard back in the fifties, getting wheelspin at 100mph fer gawd's sake!
ReplyDeleteLooked like a few double takes on the platforms too! ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt just occurred to me that in the event of an EMP strike or solar flare a steam train may be the only mass transit engine still running. Assuming that the controls haven't been 'upgraded' with electronics.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
ECML? East Coast Main Line?
ReplyDelete"Assuming that the controls haven't been 'upgraded' with electronics. "
ReplyDeleteOkay, now somebody has to take a picture of a steam engine cab and photoshop a Garmin into it...;-)
One of the things that has me hopeful for the coming collapse is that the principles behind steam engines are now well-known, except maybe to common core livestock. Combo a biomass/wood/coal burning steam engine with a DIY generator and you have s solid start at regaining civilization.
ReplyDeleteCharles, yes, "East Coast Mainline" or "East Coast Main Line"...people disagree. It refers to the high-speed rail corridor between London and Edinburgh in the UK. It has no level crossings, one of the key criteria of high speed rail, and one of the main blocks to high speed rail in the US.
ReplyDelete"Okay, now somebody has to take a picture of a steam engine cab and photoshop a Garmin into it...;-)"
ReplyDeleteYup, a glass cockpit with MFDs (Multi Function Displays) in a steam locomotive. That would offend the purists and the modernists both.
By upgrade to electronics I was referring to the practice of exchanging the original direct reading pressure and temperature gauges with sensors and electronic indicators and in the case of oil fired boilers using an electronic controller and solenoid valves to control the flame.
Al_in_Ottawa
An EMP would take out the signalling system, so you'd be all steamed up with nowhere to go :-(
ReplyDeleteIt would also take out the switching control system. The old switch towers, with racks of levers which moved the switch points by pushrods, were decommissioned a very long time ago.
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