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Whew.. alot of fuel here to burn. I throw in my two tiny cents here.. 1- OIL fired home heating was in my home as a child where homes had the ability to accomodate coal bunkers for heating. To have oil was to be modern in the day and very much one of the reasons coal was not really delivered to homes after WW2. 2- Speed is not important. What they want is STEADY supply. It was important for large steam to be able to keep that long coal train moving at 10 mph no matter what hill was in the way. And large yards stored trains of coal until it was needed at the port. My two cents.
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