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jeeeb on Sept 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The tyranny of the wagon equation

ICEs have the same problem though. If they don’t rotate fast enough they stall.

For ICEs we solve the problem with gear boxes. Couldn’t the same solution have been used for steam engines?

tus666 on Sept 7, 2022 [–]

They did exist but were not common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_steam_locomotive

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