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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 6 years, 12 months ago
Well it has happened… Union Pacific has finished the restoration of the articulated Big Boy 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive, and this video catches it being given its first steam up since the restoration outside the shop in Cheyenne… ponder that one folks: Union Pacific knows (once again) essentially how to construct a big articulated steam locomotive… I wonder why all the expense? And I can’t imagine it’s just so “railroad days” can have steam locomotives show up, especially one this powerful:
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Some high octane: a link between steam turbines and the torsion effect…
Steam locos, apart from being time machines that can turn crusty old timers like me into gleeful little boys, would also be able to survive an EMP.
I actually blogged about this a couple of months ago… I agree, and the US Army has been restoring steam switching locomotives
So you did, sir (06Aug18!)! It’s a development which fits well with owning our human culture, as opposed to digital transhuman culture. I don’t know whether it’s a thing in the US; but you’re probably aware that the UK is dotted with standard- and narrow-gauge steam railways, now run as tourist attractions (usually by enthusiasts). The Festiniog Railway in Wales, for example, has been in operation since the 1830s.
Just curious … would these operate if EMP’d?