On 24 Mar 2017 at 13:08, Kelly St. Clair wrote:

> Just to toss this into the mix, I happen to know that TL 7 diesel
> locomotives also can and have been used to jump-start fixed
> installations during/after disaster scenarios ... which makes sense
> when you consider that such a beast is basically a diesel-fueled
> generator mounted on (electrically-driven) wheels.

You're right, I'd forgotten about that.

But that reminds me of an interesting "consequence" of moving a power
plant.

Back in the 70s, one of the local utilities was shutting down a power
plant right next to Downtown Portland. This caused quite a scramble
for a *lot* of businesses within half a mile or so.

Y'see they'd been getting steam from the plant to heat the buildings.
Basically, after driving the turbines for the generators, the steam
was more than hot enough to run thru insulated pipes to the
buildings.

The power plant was on the riverside, so this worked better than
having big condensers, and they could just pull in fresh water from
the river.

But once the plant was going to be shiut down, those businesses had
top install some other sort of heating. No way could they install
their own boilers...

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