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I have problems with a lot of these comparisons of steam locomotives. Steam was custom built for very specific applications. The Erie Triplexes lasted so long because they were very successful at the job for which they were designed. That is being the helper engine on a steep but relatively short grade. No, they didn't have the steam for a 100 mile run, but they didn't need it. Erie wanted a locomotive with a lot of tractive effort for short periods of time. They got exactly that in the Triplex. Erie kept them running because they worked. <br /> <br />And who is to say that the Big Boy was a better locomotive than the B&O dockside. Sure the dockside cannot pull a 100+ car train up Sherman Hill, but neither can the Big Boy travel around a 100 foot radius curve and safely go out on the docks. Does that mean that both were failures? Were both were "Overrated"? Hardly, they were each very successful in different applications.
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