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Article #37Re: First British steam locomotive for half a century chugs into action
From: Andrew Robert Breen
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:42
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:42
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In article <ae1294f0-43bb-459a-b328-e8f0c07daf15@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, <amogles@yahoo.com> wrote: >On 3 Aug., 21:58, Pyromancer <pyroman...@beeching.stormshadow.com> >wrote: > >> >> I'd love to see (and hear!) one of those bizarre steam-electric locos >> that Andrew Breen posted details of a while back. ๏ฟฝFrench, I think. >> > >if you mean the Swiss ones, that's not too difficult as several of the >class from which these were modified do survive (as steam >locomotives), so a replica could be created by adding the electrics. Nope. Both he and I meant the Heilmann design (Le Fusee Electrique) and her kin. High-speed reciprocating engines turing a generator to drive motors on the bogies. Have a google on "Heilmann locomotive" to see what he (and I) mean. -- Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)
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X-Google-Thread: f73ba,307c106571943bfc X-Google-Thread: 11469f,307c106571943bfc X-Google-Attributes: gidf73ba,gid11469f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!demorgan.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!south.jnrs.ja.net!not-for-mail From: azb@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) Newsgroups: uk.railway,aus.rail Subject: Re: First British steam locomotive for half a century chugs into action Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:42:23 +0100 Organization: PCA/UWA Aberystwyth Lines: 23 Message-ID: <f0sim5xq8t.ln2@news.aber.ac.uk> References: <3via94tfrs0fele04h1e35op38otpk5hoq@4ax.com> <f052b37c-dd8e-4962-bfc4-d48f82845b58@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> <v80xH$GR3glIFwVe@nemesis.as15758.net> <ae1294f0-43bb-459a-b328-e8f0c07daf15@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arun.aber.ac.uk X-Trace: south.jnrs.ja.net 1217839350 6904 144.124.16.15 (4 Aug 2008 08:42:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@south.jnrs.ja.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:42:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: azb@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen)