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I do not know if anyone has already posted a view as seen from Britain but i'd like to make a contribution on that score. Steam ended on British Railways in 1968. The railway network shrunk significantly in the 1960's but a much smaller number of Deisels replaced Britains steam fleet. A crude example is that the 36 pacifics were replaced by 22 deisels (the Deltics) on the East Coast Main Line. 22 was the total Deltic fleet and so not all would be available at any one time, but they could provide a faster, more intensive service than the one provided in steam days. Nowadays a lot of trainservises are provided by DMU's and the turnrounds that can be achived are impressive. A train works in after a journey of 150 miles 20 minutes later it works out on another train service that lasts 150 miles. I have seen DMU diagrams which total 700+ load miles a day with hardly a stop longer than 40 minutes. I know American loco's could run 900+ miles in a day but that was on continous runs. I just see it as being imposable to run a train into a station, have the engine couple off, work light to the depot, be turned, watered and have its five cleaned and be back on its carridges in 20 minutes, and all with one man operation. It would be like trying to run LIRR or Metra with steam, it cannot be done to the satisfaction of the passenger.
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