the 1890s were a wild time
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There are some people on working bringing it back with biomass https://csrail.org/
I'm not really clear on what the proposed advantages would be over modern traction though.
I suppose in theory steam is just water vapour so maybe you could eliminate the air pollution aspect of it but there would still be impacts of increased humidity.
and the emissions from actually burning the biomass.
Yeah I was thinking hypothetically of just the steam bit independent of the mechanism to heat the water.
I remember someone arguing that the future was nuclear powered steam engines to me once...
Snowpiercer shit.