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The haulage on my trip on the Cresent was an AEM7 New York - Washington and a pair of Genesis Diesels to New Orleans. I'm affraid i've never been a train spotter so i can't tell you what the numbers were. We were late leaving Washington so saw a bit of station activety. I am suprised at the amount of "pottering about" there seemed to be and how many trains are still loco hauled. I Britain its all multiple units (almost) and before that coaching stock was fixed formation. Don Phillips has little dig at European Passenger trains in the July issue that i got today, but from the opperators point of view you can relly sweat the assets with push pull and multiple unit stock and cut right down on light engin moves and ECS working. Any way rant over. <br /> <br />Dave, the Lakeside and Haverthwaite railway is standard guage. I dont know the engine in question but Andrew Barclay were a private Scotish locomotive builder and most of thier products were for industrial use so this engine probably spent its life shunting in a coal mine yard or factory. 0-6-0's were common in suburban service out of Liverpool St mainly but they were side tanks. After WWI 0-6-2's 0-4-4's and 2-6-2's tended to be common suburban steam power.. Saddle tanks tended to be for shunting only.
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