Scott: OK How much time and space do you have? [Linked Image]
Can you say "threadjack" boys and girls [Linked Image]

Our Locomotives ARE steam generators!

See www.strasburgrailroad.com
see also http://www.staufferdiesel.com/railgenspecs.html
for the generators that I am putting in.
The generators live underneath their respective cars. There are all kinds of interlocks and relays because either generator can power the trainline, or a single generator can power both the parlor car and the dining car, or a landline can power the train, (when we are sitting in the station of course [Linked Image]), The load calculations are very similar to what WV was dealing with. Fridges and hot water heaters and ovens etc etc etc. [Linked Image]

You sure of the 120 vdc in the relay houses? I'm pretty sure it's all only 12. Or at least the ones that my friends at the amtrak signal shop build are. In ours there is 235 AH nicad cells. The feds require that the gates be "held clear" for seven days with no ac power applied.
Any way without making this too long, or making it into a railfan BB, I personally don't think Sparky wv's genset needs to be as big as he was proposing this morning.

TW
PS, I would be more than happy to tell you what I know, which isn't much, by email or another thread, out of respect for WV.


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