On 10/02/2009, at 3:09 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> The Iowa Interstate Railroad imported two steam locomotives from
> China and
> had them customized for legal use here in the States.
> http://www.iaisrr.com/sites/iaisrr.com/files/Steam_0.pdf
Where's the piccies?!!
>
> This railroad had bought these for experimentation to see if they
> could be
> used in actual fleet use. The short answer is yes, but the manual
> labor
> costs ate up the savings in fuel. As a general rule, it takes 20
> man-hours
> of operation and maintenance for every hour of rail time.
Our local narrow-gauge uses volunteers for the maintenance.
Strangely, they have no shortage.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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