https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(locomotive)
I mentioned the Indian rail, 'cause I saw a video 'recently' (a couple of years ago). But it was widely used in the US, too. Don't know if it still is.
Steam locomotive speed records
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I mentioned the Indian rail, 'cause I saw a video 'recently' (a couple of years ago). But it was widely used in the US, too. Don't know if it still is.
If the people building the T1 ever get the chance to try for the record I just hope they do it somewhere out west. Anywhere in the East there are way too many grade crossings to deal with even in rural areas
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I don't know, certainly ay the height of steam power the turbine was king for maritime use. Locomotive use was certainly tried https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_turbine_locomotive
If given sufficient track and the willpower, I'd expect these to move at a good clip for challenging the record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_steam_turbine_locomotives
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Probably one of those things where it may have been done briefly but its inpossible to prove they did.
The Norfolk and Western J class were never opened up all the way. AFAIK they never had an opportunity to open it up all the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N&W_J_class_(1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N&W_J_class_(1941)
Beautiful engines probably the ultimate express passenger loco but with only 70 inch drivers compared to the usual 80 inch for speeders everything will be a blur
On a custom built track, of standard gauge, with no other restrictions applying except that 95 percent of the motive power of the vehicle must be transferred through the wheels to the track it drives on and 95 percent of that power must at an earlier point in the process be transferred via the movement of water steam heated from ambient temperature using combustion-in-place of organic solid-state fossil fuel materials carried by the vehicle itself (and not electrically heated), a speed record can be measured over a specific pre-measured and marked length of rail line, where-over the vehicle must move, and its speed be measured, twice, within a set period of time (usually within a one hour period), in opposite directions, the average of the two runs' speed which will be the recorded speed and the official record if it so happens (to ensure terrain and weather advantages in one direction is cancelled in the opposite direction).
If those are the official requirements, I can comfortably assume that 300 kilometers an hour is completely reasonable and possible for a custom-built train designed to break the record to achieve for only two dozen million dollars using modern materials and technical know-how.
If those are the official requirements, I can comfortably assume that 300 kilometers an hour is completely reasonable and possible for a custom-built train designed to break the record to achieve for only two dozen million dollars using modern materials and technical know-how.
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