And smoke when pulling hard. They required a water tank ever 25-30 miles, that’s why towns got this spacing in the American Midwest. But this impressive engine from an earlier century had nothing to do with ecological conservation, just raw power. Still takes multiple diesel-electric engines to equal a single steam engine. That train engineer needs to be wearing a proper hat, especially if this is a museum train.
Now this is a machine to be taken seriously.
It’s always amazing how much steam they can produce.
And smoke when pulling hard. They required a water tank ever 25-30 miles, that’s why towns got this spacing in the American Midwest. But this impressive engine from an earlier century had nothing to do with ecological conservation, just raw power. Still takes multiple diesel-electric engines to equal a single steam engine. That train engineer needs to be wearing a proper hat, especially if this is a museum train.
They cheated and had put a diesel at the other end of the train.
Another reason the sofa seemed to be a good choice :-)