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Author:  mjanssen [ Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: David Wardale's Book

Mr. Steam,

Yes, exactly - you got it. The winter was most likely for show, which impressed only railfans and confirmed to everyone else how great it was that these belching infernos are commercially extinct. I do not think any technology with a smoke stack is a good sell in an anti-industry economy like the US. A modern steam locomotive with conventional solid fuel combustion would certainly have to have a level of exhaust after-treatment which is difficult to achieve in the clearance diagram and probably negates mixing of the boiler and steam engine exhaust, the later of which will need to be condensed and reused to be an acceptable technology anyway, as most of the public believes water can be wasted (destroyed.) The end result would be a machine which the majority on this forum would content is not a steam locomotive because it does not conform the the Stephensonian scheme.

Regarding economics, I would suggest this paper:
http://www.trainweb.org/tusp/Coal%20Locomotive%20Final%20Paper.pdf

Author:  JohnHillier [ Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: David Wardale's Book

The link does not work.

Author:  whodom [ Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: David Wardale's Book

JohnHillier wrote:
The link does not work.


The link should work now. I had deleted the file due to space limitations which were recently fixed. I have replaced the file which fixed the link.

Ross Rowland is a regular contributor to this forum; maybe he can fill us in on Steve's whereabouts.

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