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What's so special about Big Boys?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by txhighballer</i> <br /><br />Big Boys were not the most powerful locomotives ,nor were they the biggest....but they operated on the biggest stage and had the best press.The Alleghenies,which had more horsepower,and some 2-8-8-2's which had starting tractive efforts of better than 160,000 pounds,would have outpulled her,but they could not have outrun her. <br /> If Big Boys were fed a diet of good Pocahontas coal on those huge grates,she most likely would have been up higher in the horsepower category. <br />[/quote]Said like a true gentleman on the question of the biggest and best no matter what or where it was. Well said ! ! !
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