> I'd definitely be up for funding a three engine train.....just a more prototypical one, with the engines cut into different spots
> in the consist. A lot of interesting physics (and skills required) there too!
I'd wholeheartedly endorse that! And pay to ride it, subject to CFO approval...
Kevin, thanks for the considered response. As a still-practicing (practicing: I guess I still haven't got the hang of it) aerospace engineer, I look at the restorations and demonstrations as good STEM opportunities. The history is important too, they decided to do things the way they did back then for very practical, technically-rooted reasons, and that reasoning is really important for us to understand even today.