On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:10:52 -0500 Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > Steam is maintenance intensive, short ranged and required a lot of > infrastructure (Water and fuel, especially water). Diesel-Electrics > have them beat on all fronts. And now they're even matching the HP, > with 6000HP single units in service (GMD SD90MAC-H and GE AC6000). > > Steam is a whole lot nicer to look at though. > > -Adam > Sometime railfan. hi adam, there are a couple of 'heritage' tracks (mostly to hill stations) in india which still use steam (mostly for tourism these days) but until very recently we had a lot of steam locomotives running around. you might find this interesting: http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-steam.html regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
