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1,000,000 pound Rolex...Union Pacific 3985 pulling 143 freight cars upgrade, no sweat

submitted by JamesMadison to whatever 1.3 yearsJan 5, 2023 18:17:54 ago (+6/-0)     (www.youtube.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgHrDbN4EU

The huge steam engines of the late steam period on American railroads were the perfection of steam locomotive technology. This brute was built in 1943. It crushed mountain grades. It hauled freight and passenger trains at amazing speeds. This clip is from the early '90's in Wyoming on Archer Hill, which is west of Cheyenne. UP main line. One engine, 143 freight cars, high speed. It must have been fun to be up in the cab for this. This engine isn't even close to its capacity...and it wasn't the biggest engine the UP had. This is a 4-6-6-4, and UP had a set of 4-8-8-4's which were even more powerful. Amazing things our ancestors did.


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[ - ] coldsoak 1 point 1.3 yearsJan 5, 2023 19:18:51 ago (+1/-0)

Beautiful.

[ - ] germ22 1 point 1.3 yearsJan 5, 2023 19:07:04 ago (+1/-0)

I assume this was already converted to burn oil? If not i could only imagine the fire man shoveling coal like a mad man.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 5, 2023 22:14:12 ago (+0/-0)

Didn't they have auto-loaders by then?

[ - ] germ22 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 5, 2023 22:25:14 ago (+0/-0)

I've never seen any such device. Always imagined that it would be fairly easy to implement some sort of auger to load coal in to the fire box. But even large steam boilers like the likes on the titanic, had people shoveling the coal in by hand. Maybe there was something, but i am not aware of it.

[ - ] winners_history 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 5, 2023 22:22:49 ago (+0/-0)

...and not a transistor or 'line of code' to be found.

Try knocking that out with your EMP-bomb.