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Jones wrote,
Some of those old locomotives could pull half a million pounds
with less than a hundred real horsepower, it is said - because they had sufficient torque. Howdy Jones,
My ole boss used to say, horsepower is horsehockey, torque is what a mule
has in his rear.
Ah! Steam locomotives... brought back memories of mid January 1946, war
over, arrived at Camp Schmacher outside Berkeley, caught the east
bound continental out that night , passed Sacramento steaming up the Donner
grade and BLAM! near snowbound waiting for daylight and plows to clear the
tracks. Thats when I saw an example of pure, raw horsepower.. at first dawn, UP
connected two mountain locomotives to pull the 40 car troop train up across the
pass heading to Reno.
As the tracks curved around the steep grade, you could see the two
locomotives " chugging" away at a speed of just above walking.. it was after
nightfall before we reached Reno.
That's real Hoss power.
Back to reality... much of our work is vacuum inducting feeding of
chemicals... strange experiences occur when working with vacuum. There has been
a lack of research in the vacuum arena until NASA .
Richard
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