Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2012 12:50:18 GMT -5
Go ahead and pick this apart all you want. I was a youngin and knew nothing about railroading. Absolutely NOTHING other than I liked building models. So have at it. Find all the fault in ityou want. I thinkit was in the mid 80's when I came up with this one. The SD50 and 60's were the big power.
So here it is, my first ever freelanced railroad concept.
Pacific Crest & Western.
The US, mainly California going through a severe water shortage. Contracts were setup and heavily subsidised by government. A rail line from the arctic circle to Southern California running Unit tank trains full of water.
The idea. In the artic north a huge ice crushing plant would be built. Icebergs would be harvested and towed into aq large lock. The lock would be closed, drained the the ice would be crushed into a slurry. Run through a processing plant to clean the water and then loaded into tank cars. These would be insulated tank cars. Up to two or three F7 B-units would be placed in the train as steam generator cars to pipe hot steam through the tank car insulation to keep the water from freezing in the cold winters. Once the trians got out of freezing threat, the B-units would be cut out and sent back north with a pair of SD40-2's.
Natuarlly heavy equipement and supplies would be shipped north by rail.
A bit far fetched and in reality a money pit
. But it was fun to develope it.
So here it is, my first ever freelanced railroad concept.
Pacific Crest & Western.
The US, mainly California going through a severe water shortage. Contracts were setup and heavily subsidised by government. A rail line from the arctic circle to Southern California running Unit tank trains full of water.
The idea. In the artic north a huge ice crushing plant would be built. Icebergs would be harvested and towed into aq large lock. The lock would be closed, drained the the ice would be crushed into a slurry. Run through a processing plant to clean the water and then loaded into tank cars. These would be insulated tank cars. Up to two or three F7 B-units would be placed in the train as steam generator cars to pipe hot steam through the tank car insulation to keep the water from freezing in the cold winters. Once the trians got out of freezing threat, the B-units would be cut out and sent back north with a pair of SD40-2's.
Natuarlly heavy equipement and supplies would be shipped north by rail.
A bit far fetched and in reality a money pit
. But it was fun to develope it. 
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