Beattie, I love steam, and I have for a long time, but what you don't understand is the fact that it WILL NEVER come back to being the mean of transportation.
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Sure steam costs a lot but the tourist that want to ride it, will pay for itself in no time. Building the ultimate machine I love it
. I would love to see your railroad the first ever railroad in over 50years to build steam instead of diesel thats history right there folks.
And I would love to see you design a steam locomotive, that would probably happen when hell freezes over.
You people don't understand the word Modern steam it will reduce the maintenance that was needed for back then it will require less maintenance and will be better. But sense you people are diesel lovers you will not understand what I am putting out here as you have shown. I have one more thing old technology has came back before because it was modernize. I am wasting my time with people who don't want to modernize steam here.
And you don't understand the facts,
1) It will cost too much money.
2) No big companies will want to build them.
3)It doesn't matter how you ease maintenance, you still won't be able to use the currant facilities.
4)It's all mechanical, a TON of stuff to go wrong.
5)Railroads don't want to pay their workers more and/or hire more people.
6)No way to automatically control more than one engine with one crew.
7)Need skilled workers.
8)More safety hazards.
9)Must re-train all RR workers.
10)More time to prepare for running.
If you still defy that steam will not make a comeback, then you must not have any common sense in you. We have tried to convince you with logic, but you still keep posting nonsense.
Would I like to have steam come back? Yes.
Will it ever happen? No.
Accept the truth, steam will not make a comeback, and get your facts strait and do not make any assumptions. I am not a diesel-lover.
Do I like diesels? Yes.
Do I like steam more? Yes.
I believe that is my 2 cents, if you don't like them, I don't care. It seems nobody can get you to understand the truth. If you go off saying crap to me, I won't care, this is the truth, if you don't believe it, then that is your problem, not mine.
FIN
EDIT: Holy crap, it took me more than 15 minutes to write a post? New personal record, level up.