Re: Thought exercise - steam VFT

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Matthew Geier" <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
> David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote:
> >Tezza (tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au) wrote:
> >> "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
news:E3fy5.52
> >> > Here's an interesting paper exercise. Suppose a multi squillionaire
had
> >> > decided to build a 200mph train between Melbourne and Sydney in the
late
> >> > 40s or early 50s with the technology available at the time.
> >
> >> You mean deisel and electricity?
> >
> >The object of the exercise is to design a steam loco to do the job.
> >
>
>  Given that the Snowy Hydro system would have just come online or would be
> near completion, if they had the desire to build a high speed railway
> between Sydney and Melbourne at that time, they may have very well decided
> to go electric and run the railway of Snowy Hydro power, expanding the
> generating capacity of the Snowy hydro project appropiately.

Nice new 46's at the time too, extremely powerful for their time. Anyone
know how they compared to the steam locos of the time? I think I wrote time
too many times :-)