Re: German steam locos for coal traffic?
Rod Young (berlina@bigpond.com)
1 Apr 1998 13:16:16 GMT
Aout Premier <avinyeron@bigpond.com> wrote in article
<6fqu81$bq4$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au>...
> While using a search engine to search for key-words "steam" and "rail"
> recently, I found this stuff on the English version of a German
> Website (http://www.spitzen.lok.org.de/neuestuffe/engl/damnpf.html).
> Does anybody have further information on this?
>
> >>Henschel revives high-pressure steamlok concept for Down-under coal
trains.
> >>
> >>Industry sources report that the German boiler manufacture Henschel
Kessel has been
> >>contracted by an Australian coal company with commercial interests in
transporting its
> >>product by rail to produce a prototype steam-powered locomotive based
on "NASA
> >>technology"
> >>
> >
YOU APRIL FOOL YOU!!!!!!!!
cheers Rod