Re: Re Strategic Reserve.

["John Garrison" <corrjng@rbnet.com>]

<K.D.Balderson@lboro.ac.uk> wrote in message
7qj982$1ur$1@sun-cc204.lboro.ac.uk">news:7qj982$1ur$1@sun-cc204.lboro.ac.uk...
> In article <7qj637$f0o$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com>,
> Keith Willshaw <100572.2654@compuserve.com> wrote:
> >
> >Martin Silsby <msilsby@tassie.net.au> wrote in message
> >37CBFFFE.84B67C3E@tassie.net.au">news:37CBFFFE.84B67C3E@tassie.net.au...
> >> Doesn't the NSW or Victorian railways have a few steam locos set aside
for
> >this
> >> type of situation? It would make sense to me.
> >
> >Think about it
> >
> >You also need all the Watering points. Steam trains need LOTS of
> >water at frequent intervals.
> >
> >The coaling positions
> >
> >The Ash Pits
> >
> >No to mention the trained Crews and maintenance men
>
>    Well, for fun I thought!. Would not water be more easily found than
> diesel?, and coal, wood, camel dung - anything that burns?.
>
>    Assuming we are in desperation mode who cares where the ash is dumped?.
> Untrained crews & maintenance men^H^H^H people! may well find a steam
> engine easier to get going and keep going than a diesel (I'll assume
> electric can be forgotten), depending of course on the relative
> sophistication of the said devices.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers, Keith.


Water could be as scarce as combustibles. In eatern US we are in a deep
drought and water has become a precious commodity. The deserts are
perpetually so I would guess.