by Stampank
#mad_science
Playing in the Steam

Imagine a maneuvering heat car with a hard transmission from a diesel. In general, with a hardness, N of the wheel = M of the knee wheel (say, the overturn valves allow you to reverse the engine, like on ship diesel). The maximum is somewhere 50, that is, with any tricks of the type of an external compressor propeller (not a turbine), it will not be able to drive less than 8, there are already non-working turns.
And now, so that this piece of pure madness could touch and get out on those 8-10, and even with the composition, we put pneumatic cylinders on it (classic, on the sides, with wheels!), and a battery of balloons-recoverers, in which at each braking we inject the air with these cylinders, and when touching we spend (more traumatic, since it is necessary to brake from 20-50, and touch only to 10-15).
And now, say, if it looks like a steam carrier, blows like a steam carrier, touches like a steam carrier, but is it actually a pneumatic recovery high-tech economical heat carrier with composite secure cylinders and computer-controlled valves, is it a stumppank or dirt?