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Murph: With all due respect, I would only ask Why would a successfull railroad doing things on its own so well do something like that?????If what I have read about the N&W in the 40's and 50's the so called good and used steamers posessed neither the qualities or met the requirements that were wanted or appropriate for their operating environment. As Ed King has alluded to in his writings. For the N&W (Steam Glory from Classic Trains) Pretty was not important and what the other builders equipment did not matter to them. What mattered was making money and they did their own way with their own locomotives, run for their railroad, on their own operating requirements and their own terms not owing any other builder the credit for doing what they knew how to build and do better than anyone else. That was making money and that they did quite well. By the way that tradition continues today with NS keeping locomotives repaired, rebuilt and running on its own from its own shops with their own people for their own purposes and uses, ie making money. - PL
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