{"id":33883,"date":"2015-12-10T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33883"},"modified":"2015-12-09T21:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:58:55","slug":"your-business-model-and-transformative-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/10\/your-business-model-and-transformative-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Your business model and transformative change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/theartsmechanical.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/27\/what-do-you-do-when-technologies-change-and-your-business-model-becomes-obsolete\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Arts Mechanical<\/em><\/a>, there&#8217;s a paean to the amazing technological achievement represented by this steam engine:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CO-RR-H8-Allegheny-853x597.jpg\" alt=\"C&amp;O RR H8 Allegheny\" width=\"853\" height=\"597\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CO-RR-H8-Allegheny-853x597.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CO-RR-H8-Allegheny-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CO-RR-H8-Allegheny-480x336.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CO-RR-H8-Allegheny-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CO-RR-H8-Allegheny.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and a return to reality by looking at how that amazing steam engine was made utterly obsolete by a humble diesel switcher and its direct descendants:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which brings us to the picture at the head of this post. Anybody ever hear of Lima Locomotive? Here is what they did. That is a C&#038;O RR H8 Allegheny.  It is the largest and most powerful steam locomotive ever built. The locomotive was in the shed and there was no way I could get a side shot but the size of it boggles the mind. The firebox is the same size as a small house. The locomotive was designed to move mountains of coal and that\u2019s what it did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2-6-6-6\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2-6-6-6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was also obsolete before it was erected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Arts Mechanical, there&#8217;s a paean to the amazing technological achievement represented by this steam engine: &#8230; and a return to reality by looking at how that amazing steam engine was made utterly obsolete by a humble diesel switcher and its direct descendants: Which brings us to the picture at the head of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,237,13],"tags":[174,236,980],"class_list":["post-33883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-railways","category-usa","tag-innovation","tag-progress","tag-steampower"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33885,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33883\/revisions\/33885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}