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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (51736)6/3/2000 10:06:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
A further problem with steam locomotives is that their side-rod action makes the engines wiggle slightly, which drives the rails apart (the side-rods connect the drive wheels together and to the pistons). Which is not a problem with boring, utterly-lacking-mechanical-poetry diesel-electric locomotives.
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