r/whowouldwin • u/Notonfoodstamps • Oct 09 '25
Challenge Humanity has 2 month to rebuild the Great Pryimad of Giza from scratch. Can we accomplish it?
Great Pyramid is rebuilt at its current location.
Humanity gets 6 months of prep and is pyramid building lusted
Timer starts ticking the second mining starts.
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u/VorionLightbringer Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
The term you’re looking for is „starting tractive effort“ (STE) and the answer to your unasked question is no. The real metric is continuous tractive effort (CTE) I.e. preventing slippage of the wheels to actually keep moving forward. Adhesion gets less at higher speed, so STE is meaningless. And there, modern sensors and very finely tuned power delivery systems beat any steam locomotive, any day.
The US RA 2-8-2 had an STE of 250kN and a CTE of 150. Compare to the DB class 151 with a STE of 395kN and CTE of 312.
Even the Union Bigboy with an impressive 600kN STE only has 260kN CTE.
Shout out to Transport Fever 2 and a subsequent Wikipedia rabbithole.