One advantage prototype diesels have (had)is starting torque. A diesel could start a heavier train easier, but once moving, the steamer could out-accelerate it.
One reason is because the engineer could overload the traction motors, temporarily, to the point of giving any resident spiders hot feet, to get a train started. The same applies when pulling a heavy train up a hill. Back when the engineer controlled the locomotive, we moved a LOT of tonnage that would have otherwise sat. Bob Nicholson _________________________________________ --- In [email protected], roy inman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's metaphysical Ed. > > An equivalently sized steam engine will always outperform the diesel, at > least in minds of steam aficionados, so that by some magic makes it so. > > Roy Inman > > From: Edward Loizeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:09:29 -0700 > To: "List, S scale" <[email protected]> > Subject: {S-Scale List} Steam vs. Diesel > > > Has anyone, besides myself, noticed that a diesel with eight powered wheels > pulls less than a steamer with eight powered wheels and with the same weight > as the diesel? Why would that be? Try it and see if it is true. Having > fun....Ed L. > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
