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[quote user="PM Railfan"]   <div class="quote-header">  Heck show me a youtube video (or other) in which the T1 DOESNT slip. And dont blame it on the engineers handling either.</div> [/quote] No slips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgKcGnEihc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgKcGnEihc</a>   Remember, the T-1 being "Constantly and Uncontrollably Slipping" should not hold it back. It appears to me that this slipping thing is masking a lot of the T-1's highspots; the T-1 had incedible effiency, for one. What does it matter if the original T-1 had slipping problems, this is a new one, and a new chance to learn what it was realy like. Who cares how a steamer runs so long as there is one running, anyway! (I know I'm quoting someone here, but I like the line): "Let's make this the best T-1 Ever!"   Refering to Juniatha's post, the laws of physics mean that there will always be  a "sweet spot" of traction before the drivers start to slip. It's just a matter of keeping the engine in this "sweet spot" during startup. Most engines have a large "sweet spot" making them seem to stick to the rails. The T-1 just had a small sweet spot, this does not mean that it cannot be kept within that zone, it just means that, (suprise, suprise,) it takes one fine engineer to keep it within the sweet spot while starting a train. Some engineers may have blamed it on the engine bacause they didn't want the admit they weren't skilled enough to keep in the sweet spot. This doesn't mean they were bad, it means the T-1 was very touchy on startup. [quote user="PM Railfan"] And dont blame it on the engineers handling either. [/quote] Maybe people use this as an attack on the T-1 because their image of an engineer in the day was one of a man who could control any iron horse. Some horses were not meant to be tamed.   It seems to me someone is just dead set againt this particualar class.
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