A place for discussing diverse methods of powering locomotives, such as Internal Combustion, Wind, etc...
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Hancockshire
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by Hancockshire » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:21 pm
We all know & love the lemon battery, so what if there was a train powered by such scientific fuel?
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laalratty
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by laalratty » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:23 pm
Not that I've heared of, but i''m sure someone will try and have a go now it has been suggested. I suspect that the current will be too low to move an engine though, let alone pull a train
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by made-in-england » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:59 pm
laalratty wrote:Not that I've heared of, but i''m sure someone will try and have a go now it has been suggested. I suspect that the current will be too low to move an engine though, let alone pull a train
He said lemons, lets not bring the rasins into it!
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mhlr
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by mhlr » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:12 pm
I think you would need a hell of a lot of lemons for that to work!!! And with all that weight, the power to weight ratio would still be completely the wrong way around!
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DLRdan
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by DLRdan » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:05 pm
i aggree with pete, it might be a bit of a lemon. Just remember time flys like an arrow and fruit flys like a banana
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Hancockshire
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by Hancockshire » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:47 am
Ok, but what about those old Hotwheels cars that you put your fave drink in it & it goes?
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by mhlr » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:59 pm
Hancockshire wrote:Ok, but what about those old Hotwheels cars that you put your fave drink in it & it goes?
very low power... you would never make a train move with it.
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by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:06 pm
I dunno, If anyone would pay me I would try it!! And besides it might onely be an inspection trolly on something, or could be the dredded cousain of bluebell the rail car!!

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SLRmidge
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by SLRmidge » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:40 pm
Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote: And besides it might onely be an inspection trolly on something, or could be the dredded cousain of bluebell the rail car!!
'Bluebottle' please 
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by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:57 pm
'Bluebottle' please
Ooops sorry! What would the lemon powered cousain be called I wonder?!

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LMS-Jools
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by LMS-Jools » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:59 pm
"Lemon Squeezy Bottle"
perhaps :roll:
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laalratty
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by laalratty » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:39 pm
Right people, I have split away the stuff about lemon squeezy bottle and Davros to the off topic sction, so that you can carry on about doctor who without the chance of anyone moaning about it being off topic.
The new topic is here
http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/view ... 7784#17784
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SLRmidge
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by SLRmidge » Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:14 pm
But my Bluebottle now runs on lemon juice

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LMS-Jools
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by LMS-Jools » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:00 pm
Bring back the Lemon Squeezy Bottle
you tyrannical dictator you !
lol
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Crackingjob
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by Crackingjob » Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:41 pm
There have been soda powered ones, wind ,compressed air etc...even one powered by a stirling engine (found that in an old SMT magazine)
but Coffee!!!!
Apparently many years ago in Brazil they had too much and a fall in world prices, and coffee was being dumped until they compressed it in to bricks and used it in locos.
Crackingjob

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DLRdan
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by DLRdan » Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:17 pm
one brick or two

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cjallenby
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by cjallenby » Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:42 pm
Those fish must have ha a mega caffine rush after it got dumped in the sea!
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Pendo Pilot
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by Pendo Pilot » Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:07 am
Sorry to dig up an old topic but....
Lemon power then, ok so the amount of lemons needed to move train power/weight issue. How about lemon power supplying power via overhead wires. Then the loco could be made really light?
Just an idea anyway/
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Narrow Minded
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by Narrow Minded » Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:40 am
You could always rig up some sort of hamster wheel

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DolwyddelanLightRail
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by DolwyddelanLightRail » Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:22 am
Narrow Minded wrote:You could always rig up some sort of hamster wheel

Now i LIKE that idea!

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