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[quote user="Kevin C. Smith"]What about steam? Maybe because they were more specialized rather than mass produced there weren't so many "misfires". A few that might qualify? Erie Triplex, C&O Allegheny or in Britian I've heard that Sidney Webb came up with a few?[/quote] You're right, individual designs were far too idiosnycratic, though there were a lot of lemons, e.g, almost everything with three cylinders or nickel-steel boilers.  You have to look at broad themes like U.S.R.A. designs or Super-Power.  I think one could make a good case that Super-Power steam in general was an Edsel -- overhyped, underperformed, scrapped far earlier than the conventional wisdom imagined in the 1930s.  Super-Power pretty much killed the old-line locomotive builders, who wasted their window of opportunity perfecting an obsolete technology and paid far too little attention to the new. S. Hadid
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