Natural Gas Locomotive

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul Milenkovic

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The Garret unit was able to top Snoqualmie Pass at 70 mph grossing 80,000 lbs. something I don't believe todays trucks will ever come close to.

Sorry, can't help asking -- did it chase actor Dennis Weaver all over the road in his little Dodge Dart (Speilberg's first movie was this TV Sunday Matinee classic called Duel)?

Speaking of "Duel", if you remember the ending the truck and tank trailer plunged over the cliff, and contrary to usual Hollywood scripting, it did not explode in an orgy of pyrotechnics, thus the tank was empty both in reality and implied in the story line. An empty tanker can then run at high speeds even up steep grades.

One other thing about that movie. There was a scene in which the pursuing truck is running parallel with a Southern Pacific train, and the trucker and the engineer exchange horn toots. Hmmmm, were they in cahoots?[:-,][}:)]

Back to the subject matter. Why waste time with liquifying natural gas when it may be just as easy to gasify coal onboard? The price differential already favors even gasified coal (with all the inherent processing) over wellhead natural gas.