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What do these great locomotives have in common?

What do these great locomotives have in common?

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Trainspotter

Member since
May 2001
From: CA
32 posts

What do these great locomotives have in common?

Posted by Trainspotter on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:28 PM

NYC's J3a's, Pennsy's 4-4-4-4 Duplexii, CMS&SP's Class A Hiawathas, Pennsy's K4's, N&W's Jawn Henry NYC's Niagara Class 4-8-4's? They have all disappeared without a trace.

Why were so many of America's great steam locomotives scrapped and not preserved?

The trainspotter's credo: 'I was born a spotter. I trainspot, therefore I am.'

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thirdrail1

Member since
January 2001
From: Niue
735 posts

Posted by thirdrail1 on Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:05 AM

First, there IS a PRR K4s preserved, No. 1361, which is being rebuilt at the Steamtwon complex in Scranton, PA. PRR did not feel the T1's were successful, nor did N&W feel the one and only Jawn Henry was successful. People don't commemorate mistakes. As to the NYC, they hated railfans at the time.

"The public be ***ed, it's the Pennsylvania Railroad I'm competing with." - W.K.Vanderbilt