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Le Massena's "Big Engines" article (1968 Trains)
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<p>[quote user="GP40-2"]The only reason they completed their own end-of-steam designs was because at the time they had too much R&D tied up in them to stop. Their hope was to sell them to another RR that was more committed to steam, but no one was interested[/quote] </p><p>Thinking about this,</p><p>... and we add Harvey400K's and others thoughts, look at the number of built engines containing their own design ( past '30 steam, excluding any typical Decapod or Mountain ... etc. design ...),</p><p>their steam railroad department seemed go to no-where...and those late '20 design 2-10-4 C&O T-Class were known one of the best on the PRR? Even equal power to Q2, correct? No blame on other designs... but they were..costly? Pushing limits?<br></p><p>However those late S2, from a theoretical standpoint, looked pretty well, I might thing...</p><p>-hard times for steam, though. <br></p><p>I <br></p>
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