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Cussler was indeed no expert on trains; he knew much of shipping and diving. The 2-8-0 is an error, and so too is the bridge of which he wrote, crossing the Hudson with a Manhattan-bound passenger train. If it existed, the route would as noted be the West Shore NYC crossing below Albany to the east shore NYC by means of a lift bridge. Does he not, in his plot, have the train diverted and concealed for ages in an old mine tunnel while the authorities unsuccessfully dredge the Hudson looking for it beneath the open bridge? The 2-8-0 does, however, appear fairly often as a passenger engine in old ICC accident reports of the 1920's and 1930's on small rr's and branch lines.
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