Friday, October 13, 2017

Because It's Friday

Note that the Johnson Bar isn't all the way forward.

3 comments:

  1. I was a guest on the footplate of a steam loko once.
    We were doing 90 mph,
    and the damn thing STILL got wheelspin !

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  2. That low steel-wheel-on-steel-rail friction is the reason, though, for trains' shipping efficiency. The hard part is ever making money on the Iron Horse.

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  3. Well, part of the problem might be that the propeller on the locomotive is too small for the job. I'm sure with a larger prop it would do better.

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