Her single steel screw propeller was powered by a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine and developed 162 hp. |
The Lord Stewart is listed as having two boilers and a three-cylinder steam engine. |
The steam engine with six bogies arrived from Shornur, through a metre-gauge track. |
Of course, multiple unit diesels with one engineer can do it, but it takes a lot of diesel horsepower to match the steam engine at speed. |
They'd missed out on the steam engine and virtually every other scientific and industrial advance. |
Keep in mind that in those days, to be in the cab of a working mainline steam engine had to be on a par with a ride in a jet fighter today. |