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Blasingame: 21st Century Steam Iconoclast

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Blasingame: 21st Century Steam Iconoclast
Posted by wallyworld on Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:42 AM

"Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
Mark Twain

I fondly remember a hoax perpetrated on my fellow citizens that only my fellow railfans could appreciate the surreal quality of its import. About two years after the rails were pulled up, the subject of the CNSM still had three or four out of nine lives left...and intermittant letters to the editor on the subject would crop up from time to time...each suggesting some bizarre revival scheme...these are another story in of themselves...One day an announcement appeared in the paper..the formation of the CNSM Railway..it will run on then Soo Line trackage rights..use linear induction motors.."the woiks".....I read it a immediately, as would you would, dear reader, that this was a blatant hoax. The next few days brought an onslaught of letters akin to "oh..this is wonderful..blah, blah, blah...." The more I read, the more I was both irritated and amused...About a week later, a sheepish, letter by the editor in the Op-Ed page announced the obvious...they had been had.

So, with that in mind, is there more to this announcement that just wishful thinking? Being fair, I withhold judgement although it is interesting enough to ponder...time will tell.

   http://www.trainweb.org/tusp/news/Steam%20Page%20Release%206-13-2005.pdf

 

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Posted by rrnut282 on Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:51 AM
You're a day early.
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Posted by Dakguy201 on Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:53 AM

River City gotta have a Boys Band.

 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:13 PM

The name is familiar and the working paper brings up the same concepts that have been raised by him previously.  While it may not be a hoax, it IS unrealistic and is best consigned to the dustbin.

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Posted by erikem on Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:11 PM
 CSSHEGEWISCH wrote:

The name is familiar and the working paper brings up the same concepts that have been raised by him previously.  While it may not be a hoax, it IS unrealistic and is best consigned to the dustbin.

Perhaps you're confusing the name with Berlinerwerke? Evil [}:)]

- Erik

P.S. The Berlinerwerke website has quite a collection of locomotive designs that never got off the drawing board, though some would say that the designs never should haev left the drawing board. One of my favorites was the DDP-45. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:53 PM

Blasingame's steam designs could be adapted to the philosophy of the baseline/peaking power dynamic of the energy industry.  Uses one steam propulsion system for lugging and the other for highballing.

And no, it'll never see the light of day outside a major lottery haul, because it is probably cheaper overall to liquify coal for use in diesel engines via the current fuel infrastructure.

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