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Joined: 03/06/2019
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1581
| Posted: 10:26pm 16 Nov 2021 |
The effort and investment people go to with Trains is quite Extraordinary.
Must have been a good size Model to use a car engine!
I read some years ago that the Train that takes Visitors on the scenic steam train rides in the Grand Canyon is Fired With Veg oil.
They converted the thing with a Burner and use all the waste Veg oil from the Multiple restaurants in the park instead of Coal.
All nice and environmental.
Would certainly be a lot quicker To light the burner rather than a get a coal fire up and going but they probably have to heat the thing up slowly anyway at least initially.
Much easier to turn a valve that shovel coal every 60 seconds and the energy Value would be Higher too.
I can easy do 1200Kw with my backyard burners, I wonder what the burner in that thing puts out? I doubt it's particularly huge, I'd guess around 600Kw or so.
The way things are going they will probably have to appease the wowsers and Convert the thing to electric. Won't that be an education for them?
I remember my Uncle talking about the sound cards. They were very expensive back then but I spose over the years they have got much cheaper now. Could get those little boards and download or record your own sounds onto them now.