What's Wrong With This Joke was TandemSpeed Limit 2155
i still have 3-4 (360 reference) green cards (GX20-1703) as well as two 360-67 "blue" cards (229-3174) One "blue" card, I borrowed it from "M" at the science center (it still has...
I should have said 'max' in there. Sorry..
Yeah. plantardier tried their hand at selling turbine electric in the US, at the nagging of the US DOT. Once AGAIN, it was a commercial failure. The idea was to get 'electric train performance' without the supposedly 'expensive' electrification. Once again, it was a total failure - the prototype is rotting up in a yard in Canada somewhere. Closest to a sale was Florida, where they proposed it Vs an electric system for high speed rail. So much for big savings - the turbine trains were more expensive, slower, and the system cost was barely cheaper, despite heavy single tracking in BBD's design proposal. FL went BBD, demanded all electric, then came to its senses and realized the state has no real use for high speed rail becaue it has no useable local transit to support it, nor any real city centers. The system would have been a very expensive shuttle between Orlando airport and disneyworld. Whoopie.
Diesel electric's well established, though diesel hydrualic is and was common in Europe for decades and had some noteably uses in the US (RDC, etc)
Peachicken wrote (with me editing for space): This is a random event that is at most able to convey information FTL than is the "writing speed" of a giant-size...
IMHO, DH hasn't gotten big use in the US only because of Electro-Motive's big success early on. There's little question it works, and in some applications beats DE anyway.
I suspect the US DOT will STILL keep trying at the gas turbine train idea, but it's so far been proven to be unworkable - the TGV was origionally going to be gas turbine - only after the prototypes got rolling did they decide to go electric. Pretty much everyone's tried it and it's been a failure - turboshafts aren't very reliable sucking in dust and being shaken like crazy all day, fuel consumption is STILL higher than a diesel, and maintenance is a scary thing to think about - lots of rail maintenance is hammer based. Gas turbines have a nasty habit of exploding and shedding parts when you abuse them...
You still controlling it?" I asked. I was imagining microscopic tendrils sp ieling out of Joshua like the fishing line in my rod. Roland Lanois, Montreal...
More realistically, the US DOT should step back, look at how they're pretty much the sole party persuing gas turbine powered trains (Railpower's vaporware GT loco not withstanding), and then look at what's worked overseas and adopt that. But you're talking about an agency-industry that has rasied NIH from an acronym to an art form...
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