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If you are really into this stuff, buy Hank Johnson's: "The whistles blow no more" It is a great book about railroad logging in the Sierra Nevada 1874-1942. good reading, lots of pictures.

I think one of those Shays is still running up in Mendocino county, CA. I can't remember the name of the railroad, but Jerry Beranek would know, I'm sure.

No, the idea was to use diesel as a heat source. Apparently you get a better fuel economy when you use the fuel to heat water instead of to expand in a cylinder and move a piston. When I was a kid,I grew up way out in the sticks ( way out in the sticks for Denmark, that is!) and the small local...

A lot of east european countries still use steam, as do India and a lot of other 3rd world countries. Some years back, a bunch of german engineers designed a steampowered train, which was way more fuel efficient than dieselpower. Since most dieselpowered trains here work by having a diesel...