Railroads held the pace in 1934

[wanswheel]

https://archive.org/stream/Nations-Business-1934-05#page/n0/mode/2up

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Interesting that the article includes the Budd-Michelin "Silver Slipper" and D&H 1403, the triple-expansion 4-8-0.  Neither of them could be considered a rousing success.

[Overmod]

CSSHEGEWISCH

Interesting that the article includes the Budd-Michelin "Silver Slipper" and D&H 1403, the triple-expansion 4-8-0.  Neither of them could be considered a rousing success.

Not to mention the (in)famous 'Eagle of the Rails' -- and this article contains something I've been looking for for many years, a detail picture of the Howe pneumatic wheel.  (I can now confirm, I think, what the reason for initial 'success' followed by rapid and ignominious disappearance (if 'ignominious disappearance from the public eye' is not an oxymoron) of that vehicle and its developer was.

Oddly enough, at least "some" of the compound high-pressure 2-8-0s were considered a success for a reasonable time ... in the service for which they were built.  It was only when it became increasingly clear that a higher-speed railroad that did not principally depend on a relatively large number of slow coal trains fueled at minimum cost was the 'future' of the D&H that the compounds became "not worth the effort".

Thanks!

[Miningman]

Well some things haven't changed one iota...how about that insurance company ad with the fellow quoting how much he saved by switching over to another company...you still hear the exact same line today.