synonymouse Wrote:
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> I came across this video today and it is dripping
> with nostalgia. Lots of steam, '50's cars and
> even the diesels look pretty good.
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> I have heard this before, that the NYC Niagaras
> were the epitome of steam. There is also the
> story they were handicapped with high carbon steel
> boilers that cracked. Dunno if that is true.

It's not. Got it backwards.

It was high nickle steel boilers that
had severe cracking issues. Do not know if the
6000s had those or not when new. Carbon steel is
much more "boiler friendly" than nickle steel, and
is the reason that so many nickle steel boilers were
replaced with carbon steel boilers.