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Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: ACE 3000
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 14:53:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 19 14:53:09 1983
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The ACE 3000 seems to be on somewhat of back burner at the present time
unfortunately.  The design people were supposed to visit Virginia and
the Alleghany Central Railroad where I part-time to get some measurements
and data, but alas, they never showed.  I found out later that the big
bottleneck now in the project is indeed that the people involved do not
have even a rudimentary background in railroad steam!  Even more recently
I found out that some of the other stumbling blocks are the same as those
that nixed the steam-turbines of the late fifties:  Cinder/Dust contamination
of electrical equipment, uncontrollable coal quality, refractory problems
and the like.  The really good news though is that the backing is still
there and I understand that research in other areas is being done and that
specialized experiments involving Ross Rowland's 614 are on the drawing board!