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Fictional liveries: the EWS Riddles 2-10-0

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Once, during my many story making times, I imagined what it would be like if we started to use steam power again. A best designs would be both the Riddles WD 2-10-0 and the 9F.

For this part of the story it involved freight movements of the 2025s where the WD 2-10-0 design was built to super-modern standards and runs on recycled coffee instead of coal (I don’t actually know if this would work, but it’s a nice idea)

Since not being built for the WD, the re-designed WDs had to find a new name. Currently it’s Coffee Pot, since the locos burn recycled coffee, but for the anti-steamers it’s also called ‘what the heck is that mess!?’. 

10 were built, numbered 1000 to 1009. (A basic number scheme until reworked)

EWS owns them all and keeps them running at Toton (this is where it’s obviously an alternate history story, since EWS isn’t around anymore(?) and neither will Toton sidings for much longer)


The locomotives’ livery is black with yellow trimmings, and with a cast iron plate of the EWS symbol on their tenders. The locos have permanently fixed LED lamps and have built-in safety equipment. These locos are only able to run on the smaller lines since automation has mostly taken over the mainlines and no signals can be found on some of those lines. 
That isn’t to say that these locos couldn’t appear on other lines, but they would need an escort with the technology to read the digital signals so it’s easier to keep them around their own signal-full railways.


 

 

(A work-in-progress alternate history)

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I'm sure this would cause faction wars between tea and coffee drinkers. Personally I'd love the smell of coffee passing through the countryside :)

 

On a more serious note, one of the problems of certain biofuels is that they require land in the tropics, where land is in short supply, especially for the poorest. Waste plastic as a fuel would be nice.

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2 hours ago, Mikkel said:

I'm sure this would cause faction wars between tea and coffee drinkers. Personally I'd love the smell of coffee passing through the countryside :)

 

On a more serious note, one of the problems of certain biofuels is that they require land in the tropics, where land is in short supply, especially for the poorest. Waste plastic as a fuel would be nice.

I’ve been worrying about seeing if I could change the fuels for heritage railways for a while now. I don’t particularly want to see the end of steam so early in my lifetime if I’m honest.

There’s hope for the post 50s locos since they seemed less fussy about coal. It seems the GWR locos are going to go first since most only seem to like Welsh coal.

The recycled coffee seemed like a good idea for A1 Tornado when I first thought about it. Since the coffee isn’t millions of years old it might clog up a bit more but it should keep steam around for a decade more hopefully.

 

Diesels are still relatively newer than the steam locos too, and the original Diesel engine was never planned to run on fossil fuels (until Mr Rudolf Diesel died at sea very suspiciously)

There’s hope for diesel too. 

I don’t think I’ll ever get the chance to test these alternate fuels but I’ll still try.

 

 

plus if locos burn coffee, the name ‘Coffee Pot’ will actually make sense (mostly for the Q1).

 

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