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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: Bob Ackley
from: Roger Nelson
date: 2008-05-09 05:24:32
subject: Re: Two Trains . 1.01

BA> Replying to a message of Roger Nelson to JOHNJWILSON:
 
BA>J>> Well, I said there was a clue; here it is: One of the trains is a
BA>J>> diesel.
 
BA>RN> How far will it go on 10 gallons of fuel?
 
BA> If you believe CSX commercials, one gallon of diesel will move a ton of
BA> freight 423 miles on their railroad.
 
BA> OTOH, Union Pacific's articulated steam locomotive gets about 10 gallons
BA> per mile on bunker oil (5,000 gallons to go from Cheyenne, WY, to Omaha,
BA> NE) - and that's without much of a load.
 
I was kidding, Bob.  (-:  That is good info you supplied, though, as usual.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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