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[quote user="Piper106a"]Even if there was enough room for them to fit, Europeans would not even want to think about the distruction to rails and bridges a C&O H-8 Allegeny 2-6-6-6 (over 40 ton axle load, and roughly 350 ton engine weight) would have left in their wake. [/quote] There never was a requirement for those giant locomotives. Europe and USA have different railroading philosophies. In most European countries passenger trains have absolute priority. To avoid too much interference/delays the speed gap between passenger and freight needs to be small. Freight trains are mostly run near the average speed of the passenger trains (including station stops). Freight train length (limited by historically short yards and sidings), axle loads and thus weight seem to be a good compromise to run passenger and freight together. Currently work is underway to allow train length of 840 m(2755 ft) on selected routes. Regards, Volker
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