Re: New steam locomotives for India

[billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)]

"comtrain" <comtrain@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> A group of Engineers in the USA built a modern Steam Engine, or at least
> designed one that could burn liquefied coal, reuse its own waste water, and
> outperform any Diesel engine that can be built today. But the money bags of
> this world were so frightened by the prospect, that they used their
> conciderabkle power to stop its funding......

Ah, there's nothing like a conspiracy theory, however weak, in the
hands of a zelot......

> ps and anyway, how many people would continue to go so far out of their way
> to visit the Darjeeling Railway or those other very profitable little
> Touristy things if they were hauled by a bloody Diesel?

There are quite a number of very succesful "Touristy things" around
the world hauled by diesels.

Cheers,

Bill