Post ATG3ALgrV4QqBHTt9k by hakfoo@mstdn.party
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 (DIR) Post #ATG3ALAxPguYaKYPQW by linuxgal@techhub.social
       2023-03-03T02:27:34Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #ATG3ALgrV4QqBHTt9k by hakfoo@mstdn.party
       2023-03-03T06:13:25Z
       
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       @linuxgal It should be an EMD GP-9.  Although I personally prefer to store an English Electric 'Deltic' Class 55 in my pants pocket.Is there anyone more obnoxiously pendantic than a railway enthusiast? :blobcatgiggle:
       
 (DIR) Post #ATG3AMC3d5Nxk24nmS by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-03-04T02:24:33Z
       
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       @hakfoo @linuxgal I mean, the ALCO has the "coal-fired steam engine emulation mode" otherwise known as "turbocharger failure".
       
 (DIR) Post #ATG3Xl2JQkkVRzg0XY by mlanger@mastodon.world
       2023-03-03T11:43:09Z
       
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       @arclight @linuxgal OMG. I LOLed. Thank you.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATG3XlZHSB7X6F6KvY by arclight@oldbytes.space
       2023-03-03T13:44:07Z
       
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       @mlanger @linuxgal As soon as I saw ALCO, I knew this had gone off the rails...
       
 (DIR) Post #ATG3XmHanQZ9Jfpizo by arclight@oldbytes.space
       2023-03-03T13:52:28Z
       
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       @mlanger @linuxgal Fun factoid: ALCO made small nuclear reactors in the 50s and 60s that are eerily similar to the small modular reactors currently in development. I think they sold that division off to Allis-Chalmers (ag machinery supplier); there may have been plans back in the day to dot the landscape with small reactors at ag co-ops for rural electricity. Instead, we have behemoth reactors, difficult to build and impossible to finance. The ALCO reactors are mostly forgotten.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATG3XmtWWOuJDJa17Q by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-03-04T02:28:45Z
       
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       @arclight @mlanger @linuxgal It's a complex story. I lucked into nearly the whole run of the UK magazine "Nuclear Power" (1957―63). One of the British heavy-equipment manufacturers secured a worldwide (outside of USA) license from ALCO for the APPR/SM-1 design, and intended to market it in all kinds of high-power-cost remote areas.Sadly, there were no takers, because whether or not you got the necessary enriched fuel depended on the US government. The company couldn't supply it.