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In some sense I'm more surprised that someone spend time and money on building a new steam locomotive, rather than the fact that you can fit ETCS on one. Sure,
by mrweasel 2y ago
In some sense I'm more surprised that someone spend time and money on building a new steam locomotive, rather than the fact that you can fit ETCS on one.
Sure, fitting modern signaling equipment on a steam train isn't easy, but it also doesn't feel impossible. Building a brand new steam locomotive, again, sure you can probably do it, but it seems like a lot of expensive work, requiring skills that hasn't been employed in decades and it's probably not really worth doing, financially speaking.
Edit: Apparently it is not uncommon to build steam locomotives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotives_of_the_21st_century#Traditional_steam_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotives_of_the_21st_...
- lambdas 2y agoI’m a dynamics/kinematics engineer who gets consulted by steam locomotive companies often, and they’re very much worth doing financially speaking. They certainly wouldn’t be your only venture, more “you have a lot of money and love trains” but seats on these things can run for £2k a head and they run basically every day from Spring through to end of Summer.
- pjc50 2y agoThat's a lot more than I thought: I was aware of Tornado, but not that there had been quite a few more new build steam locos.
- crimony 2y agoThis is the 90 minute documentary about the development of this particular locomotive. https://youtu.be/c-CbY2d3O1c https://youtu.be/c-CbY2d3O1c