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To: Oztrich Boy
Looks a lot like the Pennsylvania T1. The T1 was one of the sharpest looking US steamers, but with four cylinders on only eight axles she slipped too much to be called truly successful.

My personal favorite is the Norfolk and Western J.

Equally at home pulling a long varnish up the side of a mountain or blasting across the open plains. The 611 is still runnable, but the lawyers have it tied up in a roundhouse. Can't get the insurance to run it.
49 posted on 01/04/2010 5:22:46 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP
Looks a lot like the Pennsylvania T1.

There's a reason for that. SA Railways copied the streamlining of the T1, which appeared a year earlier. But the 520 mechanicals were based on the more conventional 4-8-4 500B "Mountain" series which ran the interstate line, the 520 being a reduced weight version capable of running on the 60lb local tracks.

Equally at home pulling a long varnish up the side of a mountain or blasting across the open plains

That's the Adelaide-Melbourne run - 2.2% climb out of the city then 500 miles of open plains

51 posted on 01/04/2010 6:34:33 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole)
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To: GonzoGOP
If you are ever in Skagway, try out the White Pass Line.


53 posted on 01/04/2010 7:13:24 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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