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Re: Strategic Reserve.

Subject: Re: Strategic Reserve.
From: "John Garrison" <corrjng@rbnet.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:37:57 -0400
Newsgroups: alt.railroad, aus.rail, misc.transport.rail.australia-nz, misc.transport.rail.europe
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Roy Wilke <royboy@bit.dotnet.dotau> wrote in message
37CB9D2F.1B716EC8@bit.dotnet.dotau">news:37CB9D2F.1B716EC8@bit.dotnet.dotau...
> No coal or oil - but can't steam locomotives also burn wood? Or anything
that
> can be burnt in the loco's firebox, for that matter? Diesels and
electrics, I
> take it, are a bit more fussy on what fuel they use.
>


Techincally speaking, if it'll burn it'll work. I've heard of using sugar
cane leaves for fuel. Not very hot burning, so you can only go a few mph,
but where it's used it's free. (Cuba I think)

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References:
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  - From: David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>
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