Mouse,
Why don't stop worrying and just enjoy the sights and sounds of Bechtel Gauge steam action:
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Joe Cullum in Exeter ca
ynonymouse Wrote:
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> Thanks for the info on the Santa Fe 2-10-4's on
> the PRR.
>
> I suspect that if those guys who first got their
> hands on the T-1's were still around they would
> give you a good argument. You'd think they would
> have had plenty of opportunity to figure out how
> to make the locomotive slip and and vice versa.
> Of course if they hated them from the outset and
> wanted to run K-4's instead maybe they wanted to
> wear them out.
>
> The still pictures I have seen in the past of
> T-1's have shown them very dirty. Of course coal
> fired locomotives are dirtier than oil. But then
> even the pictures of the Santa Fe 2-10-4's in PRR
> service show them looking rather shabby and leaky.
> Methinks the Pennsy treated their stuff rough.