Re: Alternative Fuel for Rail?

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

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| With alternative fuels such as LPG now well established for road
transport,
| and more recently CNG (compressed natural gas) being used for buses, I
| wonder if such fuels have been successfully trialled for rail transport.
|
| It would seem that natural gas is likely to be more available than diesel
| fuel in the future, and it has been used for heavy road transport, I'm not
| sure just how successfully.
|
| Rail would seem to offer an advantage over road in that CNG requires
larger
| fuel tanks than either liquid fuels or LPG, it shouldn't be too hard to
| couple a CNG tanker behind the locomotive just as steam engines used coal
| tenders.  Of course the safety aspect of such fuels would also need to be
| considered, I must say that I felt a little uneasy a while ago standing on
| the platform at Kuala Lumpur station as a train of LPG tankers went
through!

FreightCorp trailed 2 81's on LPG in the 90's. Don't know the outcome.