The South PacificBoard

Klysevia wrote:

Joke's on you, my only ocean coastline is too cold to support algae! (I do have the Great Lakes though...)

Okay then po.

*Proceeds to genetically engineer hardier algae*

Klysevia wrote:

*puts said algae in farms*

Algae is the food of the future!

*Makes algae produce rice*

Yes! Rice supremacy po!

Uunited Islands wrote:

No thanks steam is much more classy

Was I giving you a choice po?

Ipugao wrote:

Was I giving you a choice po?

Yup
I don’t want to reform my railroad infrastructure to Handel electric trains

Ipugao wrote:

Don't worry, I will pay for the expenses and send workers po.

Again no thanks I prefer power over speed

Ipugao wrote:

And overglorified boilers on tracks have power how po?

Ahem *shows Union Pacific big boy*

Atvatabar wrote:

Wow, created this account, forgot about it, and there's already almost 2,000 messages and 20 telegrams and more notifications

When I come back to some of my alts, I see around 20,000 unread posts. It was in the North Pacific so thats why there are lots of posts.

Nicholas and Great Britain wrote:

When I come back to some of my alts, I see around 20,000 unread posts. It was in the North Pacific so thats why there are lots of posts.

We do like to talk a lot here in the South Pacific!

Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh died today.

Peoples republic of murcia wrote:

DONT SHAME THE MOTHERLAND LOL

I thought you might say that
Allow me to introduce the AA20

The large number of driving axles were meant to spread out the locomotive's weight, reducing the axle load and the resulting stress on the track. A group of Soviet locomotive engineers had visited the United States, and presumably they had seen the 4-12-2 locomotives being used by the Union Pacific. The 4-14-4 could be viewed as an expansion of that type. Unlike the successful Union Pacific locomotives, however, the AA20-1 was a complete failure.

The AA20-1 was originally intended to be a 2-14-4 (1'G2'). Construction was undertaken in Essen, Germany by Krupp, following a Soviet design. Later, the unfinished locomotive was moved to Lugansk, where a two-axle leading truck was fitted. The trailing trucks supported a huge firebox. The AA20-1 was intended to run on low-quality coal, so a lot of space was needed to burn it in order to provide enough heat to the boiler.

The seven driving axles were laid out 1.7 m (5.6 ft) apart, giving a very long rigid wheelbase of 10 m (33 ft). This required adaptations to negotiate curves. The center three driving axles were blind, and the first and seventh driving axles were fitted with lateral motion devices. These measures were not enough to make the AA20-1 work properly, however. It was prone to frequent derailments, and its large number of wheels made the engine too heavy for the track. As a result of its long wheelbase, the AA20-1 also spread the track and wrecked the points of the switches as it passed over. It was too big to fit on the turntables, too powerful for the couplers in use at the time and unable to run at full power for very long due to its undersized boiler.