My sister swears that she saw two steam engine looking things between two diesel locomotives leading a BNSF train near Gallup NM a couple of days ago. What?
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Please let us know if anyone has information about this.
I was going to say either the steam engines or diesels had broken down and the others came to the rescue. But would they ‘sandwich’ between each other?
David
I can’t think of any steam locomotives operating at this time of year.
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The old internet adage - Without pictures it didn’t happen.
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Those would be alternative-fuel tenders, most likely. Look up pictures of the FEC natural-gas tenders and see if those look like what was seen. Non-hydride hydrogen storage is likely to loom particularly large, since the gas is low-mass, it is dangerous to compress to high pressure and its maintenance at cryogenic temperature an involved and difficult exercise, and the need for good enough cost-effective insulation probably involving a thick set of shields and blankets under the collision-proofing.