Re: [DL] Passenger Train Economics

[Munch Wolf <munchwolf@yahoo.com>]

--- UriahGutsball@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/26/01 6:10:49 AM Pacific
> Standard Time, 
> munchwolf@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > Personally, I think considering what it has to
> carry 2
> >  lbs is too little, and maybe up it to 3 or 4 lbs
> per
> >  100 miles.  How does that work with the new math?
> 
> The problem with that, though, is that it's not at
> all feasible, even for 
> ghost rock, for someone to put just 2 or 4 pounds of
> rock in a big train 
> boiler and then make 60 miles an hour off it.
> $pounds of burning rock would 
> have an incredible time bringing a whole
> boiler(several thousand gallons of 
> probably cold water) up to steam. I maintain that
> you would need at least 30 
> pounds of ghost rock in a boiler starting out to get
> the boiler up to speed. 
> You would lose some efficiency in having to bring
> the water to temperature, 
> but still, you'd wind up with your 50 miles per
> pound, or 100 miles, or 
> whatever you're saying you get to the pound for
> ghost rock. 
> 

But 2 lbs of ghost rock all by itself is sufficient to
move a steam wagon or the river boat 100 miles ?

-Munch Wolf

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