On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 06:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:32:13PM +1200, cr wrote: [snip] > big fans you see on most American diesel-electrics). Portland's MAX > uses a similar system of braking to send power back on to the line. > My school used to share a (small) substation with the trains, you > could tell when a train was slowing down on the line up the street > because the lights would get slightly brighter, and if a particularly > full train (and thus heavy, requiring full throttle to accellerate > reasonably well) would make the lights slightly dimmer.
I bet the electronics in your school really loved that... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA An ad run by the NEA (the US's biggest public school TEACHERS UNION) in the Spring and Summer of 2003 asks a teenager if he can find sodium and *chloride* in the periodic table of the elements. And they wonder why people think public schools suck... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
