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Re: Railroads
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>Subject: Re: Railroads
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> I have a quick question. How difficult would it be for the project
>to build a varient of the fusion forge in starnaman for quick, mass
>production of railroad rails? For some areas, RR's would be vital
>for the rejuvination of the economy, especially since you wouldn't
>need fuel to run a RR (use fusion engines from the vehicles.) Just
>wondering what the minimum team size would be, assuming that it was
>planned for locals to provide much of the labor while the MP provided
>tech skills and vital materials.
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> I'm not sure that RR's are even feasible, in the short-term, unless
>the team could find an existing track line. Trains are highly specia
>lized pieces of equipment, even the older, steam-pwrd ones. Unless >the
team new they were near a major rail yard, I'm not sure they'd >have any
reason to come up with the idea. > On the
other hand, jeeps(w/special flanged wheels) pulled small >trains in
Europe & Asia in WW2, so, if the team WAS near a railyard, >they might
have been placed with some special equipment. I'll try to >find a book
of mine on jeeps in WW2 w/ more info. >
M.Cessna
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