Re: A parable for our current bloated overdesigned project...... The biggest (or the fastest...) isn't always better.... The short history of the 4-14-4 locomotive......
Author: Ah, now I get it.
Date: 07-23-2021 - 21:10
This looks like what you've been trying to explain would be best for the valley, and from Vegas, and on the NEC, and on the Bluff, and to the airport and on Bart tracks, and on and on and on...
I finally get it; youd the man.
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Bigger isn't always better.... A parable for
> modern times.... This popped up on my Youtube
> feed.... Enjoy a good laugh....
>
> This is why it is more important to design complex
> engineering solutions to fit the most efficient
> economic design solution (not the "biggest", or
> "most powerful", or the most "politically
> visionary"), even on a "gubmint" (and, a very evil
> one indeed, in this case) RR....
>
> The history of the 4-14-4 locomotive.....
>
> I wonder what Stalin thought of it?