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<p>[quote user="oltmannd"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">It is amazing that with all the technical talent and funding trying to execute a propulsion system as old as the discovery of electricity, they could miss the mark on #999.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span>With this electric drive craze, it is almost as if developers are driven solely by the obsession to abandon oil no matter what it takes, and therefore are blinded to the well known limitations of battery power.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">Battery powered drive is the symbolism of green propulsion over the substance of the laws of physics.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span>The centerpiece of this impossible dream will be the new Chevy <strong><i>Volt.</i></strong></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">  </span></span> </span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p>My guess is that the 999 was mostly engineered in Altoona by the shop's engineers, not Roanoke or Atlanta by Research and Test and Mechanical's Electrical Engineers and that has a lot to do with why it is the way it is...</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I understand that the NS #999 was developed in a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy, the FRA, and Penn State.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The NS shop assembled the locomotive, but there was some high priced talent designing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">What is amazing in all the hoopla surrounding the 999 at rollout was the boasting about the locomotive being pure electric, 100% clean, zero emissions, and green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Don’t let reality get in the way of important symbolism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">   </span></span> </span></span></p>
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