At the industrial park 9-30-10

[nachoman]

I think those are Gensets - looks like they have 3 stacks each? Instead of one large prime mover that runs regardless of how much power is required, they have 3 sets of engine/generators and run only what's required for a particular situation. By using 3x 500HP gensets, you cna have a 1500hp loco but whent he situation only calls for less, like maintaining speed on straight level track, you don't have a 1500hp diesel running, just a single 500hp one. Great idea.

--Randy

I remember when I was a kid about 14 years old, I thought I had this great idea that cars could have 8 cylinder engines but only use 4 cylinders when cruising in order to save gas. I told my dad, who was an aerospace engineer, and he told me such an engine would be too complicated and expensive, and probably unreliable (I didn't know it at the time, but cadillac had tried that in the early 1980s). Now, GM makes engines that do exactly that, and that is also the idea behind hybrid engines.

Of course, my dad claims that he and his grade school friend came up with the idea for the "breezway" rear window in the Mercury Monterey. He says that a Ford rep came to his school during a career week and gave a short presentation. My dad says he and his friend had this idea that cars should have a rear window that opens, so they told the Ford guy about their idea. A few years later, Mercury introduced the Monterey with the breezway window.