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| Feb 9, 2018 at 20:16 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | One possible offset to the weight of water could be methods of reclaiming "used" steam by condensers. That would depend on if the weight of a condenser large enough to reuse most of the water was significantly less than hauling additional water. | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 20:05 | comment | added | vsz | I agree with all what you wrote, but there is one problem: in the fictional scenario something caused steam locomotives to become common again. This obviously didn't happen in real life, so in all what you wrote there is no point of divergence. Still, it's a pretty realistic scenario what you presented. And actually, most people would not even notice it, because the new steam turbine locomotives would look (visually, from the outside) very similar to modern diesel locomotives. What I was looking for was to go back to the retro style steam locomotives and start adding improvements to them. | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 19:20 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 3.0 |