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Re: GN 2-8-0 (As built)
Author: The OP (original poster)
Date: 10-24-2019 - 12:50

Thanks RWS. That's quite interesting!

RWS Wrote:
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> Looks like a free floating bronze bearing rod.
> Engine appears to have been converted from a split
> adjustable bearing to a free floating bushing. The
> connecting rod may have come off of another
> locomotive during a shopping if the larger class
> were being scrapped. The SP did this to some of
> the S10 switchers the 1233 had main rods off of an
> SP Pacific, and was set up originally with a wedge
> type bearing.

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