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The new version of the spreadsheet [(4) Senior Exit Project] is avaliable at: http://www.4shared.com/file/40424140/de2da59d/_4__Senior_Exit_Project.html As always, the blog is avaliable at: http://www.steamvsdiesel.blogspot.com -THANKS, as always, comments are greatly appreciated and encouraged.
First, I'll go back into the blog and change the little bit about the number of engines per train later, since I was totally wrong. MichaelSol wrote: I'm uncomfortable with the use of a time measurement for maintenance cost and mixing it with an "operating mile" measure. They are not comparable units. The standard is "1000 rail hp miles" since time is really irrelevant in this context. Very interesting. I did not know that....at all... I guess I'll try to find something
My internet connection has been acting up the last few days, and so I'm not getting to this thread till now. Well...first I'd like to say I'm a bit....uh...overwhelmed... Reading this, Michael Sol and a couple other of you are probably the greatest human beings to have ever walked the Earth. There is so much out there on this topic, and well my efforts thus far have been proved...shameful. It has been suggested that I am using confirmation bias in this project, and that's probably
it's 1:34 AM eastern time... but the blog has been updated. I have started an actual model based on data one of you gave me (i forget who....but please take credit if you wish). The blog can be viewed here, it explains the update, and provides a link to the file: http://steamvsdiesel.blogspot.com/ Comments/Suggestions are highly appreciated, either here or on the blog. - Peter
So, this project has begun! I have begun my spreadsheet (what I have now isn't a model, I know, the model is coming...) and am traveling to spencer tomorrow to look at the NC Transportation Museum archives. Hopefully I can find some information about individual locomotives, so I can actually start to create a model that will compare a single Diesel vs. a single steam locomotive, and compare costs, proving the Diesel to be more efficient. This is a link to the blog I have created for this project
Hmm. I think I will try the UNC Charlotte library this weekend in addition to the shops at Spencer (UNC library might be better actually). From what I can tell it is a depository library. I've been there for projects before, and it has always been quite good. I had never thought about it for this before now.... Also, thank you very much for the suggestion of ICC records. If they may be inaccurate, I should be able to skew them to fit my purposes! Thank you MichaelSol for all the information on
Hello All, I am a senior in high school, doing my senior exit project ... For my project, I plan to make a computer model in excell, to calculate the expense of running various types of railroad equipment. I plan to use this model to prove the economic superiority of diesel power over steam. Last year, I wrote a 4,000 word senior exit paper on this very topic, so I cannot change. I can send my paper to whoever wants to read it for kicks...then subsequently tear it apart. I haven't looked at since
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