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Terry (terry@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 06:21:28 JST Terry

Due to problems with electricity, Ukraine began to run steam locomotives by rail. On the video Er-798-71 steam locomotive.
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  Too bad because of how we fucked things up it costs millions at least to make a new Steam train (with only plans and custom made):
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_5550
  
  In 2008 a similar train cost 5 million:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado
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  1. Pennsylvania Railroad 5550
    
    Pennsylvania Railroad 5550 (PRR 5550) is a mainline duplex drive steam locomotive under construction in the United States. With an estimated completion by 2030, the locomotive will become the 53rd example of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 steam locomotive class and the only operational locomotive of its type. The estimated cost of PRR 5550 was originally $10 million, but an updated projected cost of $7 million was released with the acquisition of an existing long-haul tender from the Western New York Railway Historical Society in August 2017. Construction began in 2014 with the casting of the locomotive's keystone-shaped number plate. Major components, including two Boxpok drivers, the prow, the cab, third-course boiler, and fire door have been completed. Introduction The original T1 Class The Pennsylvania Railroad class T1 class steam locomotive was one of the most unique and controversial classes of locomotives ever constructed. This was due to its unusual duplex drive 4-4-4-4 wheel arrangement, its use of the Franklin Type A oscillating-cam poppet valve, and its characteristic...
  2. LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado
    
    LNER Peppercorn Class A1 No. 60163 Tornado is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive completed in 2008 to an original design by Arthur Peppercorn. It is the first new build British mainline steam locomotive since 1960, and the only Peppercorn Class A1 in existence after the original batch were scrapped. In 2017, Tornado became the first steam locomotive to officially reach 100 mph on British tracks in over 50 years. After the project was founded by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust in 1990, construction of Tornado began in 1994 and mostly took place at Darlington Works, with other components manufactured elsewhere. The project was financed through fundraising initiatives, public donations, sponsorship deals, and hiring out Tornado itself for special services. The locomotive was granted its mainline certificate in January 2009, having been designed in compliance with modern safety and certification standards. Tornado has worked on heritage and mainline trains across Britain since 2008. In 2022, it was withdrawn for overhaul. Background In 1990,...
- FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 07:38:30 JST FourOh-LLC
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  I would advise against building steam engines. They are very, very fitly and they are very dangerous. You cannot crash a steam engine and not have an fire, explosion, hot metal and hot chunks of flaming coal sprayed all over.
  
  I graduated a diesel railway engine tech in 1986, and I still saw those engines in light but regular duty.
  
  Smaller steam engines that are no moving 60 mph might be, but not these monsters.
  
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