SJ wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:10:52 -0500 > Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > >> Steam is maintenance intensive, short ranged and required a lot of >> infrastructure (Water and fuel, especially water). Diesel-Electrics >> have them beat on all fronts. And now they're even matching the HP, >> with 6000HP single units in service (GMD SD90MAC-H and GE AC6000). >> >> Steam is a whole lot nicer to look at though. >> >> -Adam >> Sometime railfan. > > hi adam, > > there are a couple of 'heritage' tracks (mostly to hill stations) in > india which still use steam (mostly for tourism these days) but until > very recently we had a lot of steam locomotives running around. > > you might find this interesting: > > http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-steam.html > > regards, subash >
India did, and so did the Chinese, who only dieselized in the last 5-10 years. Some rather interesting big steam designs over there as well. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
