[PRCo] Re: The Great Dorset Steam Fair

[Schneider Fred]

Thanks for clarification, Tom.

I knew when I wrote it that it was a metric ton but I wasn't aware  
that tonne was equivalent to saying 2200 lbs.

As I explained to John Swindler in an e-mail you didn't see, that  
makes the engine about 88 of our tons.  British engines were very  
light.   So were their coaches.   Makes it easy to understand why  
they could run a Pacific at 90 mph and hand fire it.   It was a  
bloody heavy beast like a Pennsy K4.


On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:40 AM, TEP wrote:

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> Fred, It's not the spelling it's the weight.
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> tonne = metric ton, 1000 kg ~2200 lb
> ton = imperial ton 2240 lb (20 hundredweights)
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> And isn't your Yankee ton 2000 lb?
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> Tom Parkinson P.Eng, Vancouver BC Canada 604-733-5430, fax -5437
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