No.3187, An old branch line engine taken out of mothballs during the Oil Crisis on planet Gymnome, given new life and a steam-condenser tender.

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No.3187, An old branch line engine taken out of mothballs during the O…

No.3187, An old branch line engine taken out of mothballs during the Oil Crisis on planet Gymnome, given new life and a steam-condenser tender.

Ex-Licc Railway No. ||...|||..|| (Three four byte four three hex four three), built 2278, running on the Waogli branchline of the Licc Network Rail Line in the year 2331 during the Pan-Gymnome Oil Crisis. She's been modified with modern Advanced Steam technologies:

  • fully automatic pneumatic couplers for the modern coaches and tram stock
  • gas producer combustion system (making that onion smokestack essentially decorative) for efficiently burning, in this case, fire wood (made plentiful by the local forestry industry and proliferation of automotive woodgas producers).
  • electronically aided firing
  • positive train control antennas
  • dynamo
  • steam driven turbofan for inducing draft in the fire, because...
  • finally, and most noticeably, the steam recondensator has been added to an elongated tender. She doesn't chuff anymore, so she needs that extra draft.
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