It's diesel-electric though. Sure, for the old coal engines that makes sense, but did nobody bother to update the design after moving away from coal shovelers? Modern diesel engines still look like this. Is this really 100 years of tradition as inertia?
It's diesel-electric though. Sure, for the old coal engines that makes sense, but did nobody bother to update the design after moving away from coal shovelers? Modern diesel engines _still_ look like this. Is this really 100 years of tradition as inertia?
Shoveling coal into the engine, I'd guess.