Some time while back ago I heard around here that the South African or Rhodesian government was considering the idea or in the process of modernizing their steam engines to use modern technology to either make them more simple to operate, more powerful, o

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Strelok 12/27/18 (Thu) 01:23:20 9a4084 No.635755

Some time while back ago I heard around here that the South African or Rhodesian government was considering the idea or in the process of modernizing their steam engines to use modern technology to either make them more simple to operate, more powerful, or a combination of the two.

Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

Strelok 12/27/18 (Thu) 02:29:49 c9d812 No.635761

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It's in the archive.

>>527144

>>Rhodesia has a well developed rail network due to being a former British Colony.

>>At this point in history, most of the world is in the process of scrapping their steam locomotive fleets for diesels.

>>Rhodesia imports 100% of their oil and petrochemical products.

>>Rhodesia realizes that, as soon as they UDI, they will be embargoed by every major power.

>>Rhodesia has plentiful native coal.

>>Rhodesia goes 'fuck it', sells diesels to South Africa, pulls Beyer-Garratts out of mothball.

>>Undergoes major modernization program, rebuilding locomotives with roller bearings, superheaters, front end throttles, economizers, all the bells and whistles.

>Rhodesia could have been the savior of modern steam traction, but no, we ruined that too.

Strelok 12/27/18 (Thu) 02:32:14 d7b209 No.635762

If there was someone here 'sperging about modern steam, it was probably me. You're either referring to Rhodesia's use of steam during the Bush Wars, or else David Wardale's experiments back when he worked for the South African Railways.

Strelok 12/27/18 (Thu) 02:33:42 c9d812 No.635763

>>635761

Fuck me.

https://8ch.net/k/res/526961.html#q527144

Strelok 12/27/18 (Thu) 02:57:05 9a4084 No.635766

>>635761

>>635762

>>635763

Thanks.

Strelok 12/27/18 (Thu) 03:06:06 9a4084 No.635767

>>635761

Could we do that with a challenger or big boy platform?

Strelok 12/27/18 (Thu) 03:26:08 67d1c3 No.635772

>"/k/ - Weapons"

Strelok 12/30/18 (Sun) 09:45:05 42e9b4 No.636240

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>>635772

>not acknowledging trains as weapons

>not ancknowledging train powered artillary

>being from 4chins

Go home bitch. This isn’t the /k/ you are looking for. We fuck guns and monstergirls here.

Strelok 12/30/18 (Sun) 10:02:36 c34ce4 No.636242

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>>636240

>monstergirls

FURFAGS GET OUT!

Strelok 01/02/19 (Wed) 14:22:55 8ac0af No.636951

>>635755

Like the time they bought fucking trains that don't even fit on our tracks despite the French engineers telling them that, or how there aren't any people to fly the Gripen because they're all white and that's waysist, or kind of like the time we bought a couple of subs and even a stealth without fucking training a single competent person or installing the correct software. You're probably looking at a tender wank, a tender is when some cretin receives state money in return for a service they will never be able to provide, granted that it comes from the tax payer. I think perhaps, your friend here may have been referring to Rovos Rail or the even the Blue Train but this is a private company and rather expensive - predominantly aimed at the tourist market in a bid to relive the age of steam without breaking the bank in terms of maintenance and parts, etc.