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Re: (erielack) Plastic Steam

Haven't seen this issue.

The L-1 "Angus" 0-8-8-0 was built by Alco in 1907 and was the first
articulated on the Erie.  They were rebuilt in 1921 by Baldwin as 2-8-8-2
locomotives,

In 1909-1910 Baldwin offered the kits to make smaller engines into
articulateds and the Erie purchased one which resulted in #2900, a 2-6-8-0.
The extension was added to a 2-8-0.  It didn't work.  The rear portion
became an 0-8-0.

In 1914+ the most famous articulateds, the Triplexes (2-8-8-8-2) were built.
They weren't very successful either.  Couldn't even be called the SDP-45s of
their day.

Tony

- -----Original Message-----
From: Schuyler G. Larrabee <"SGL2_@_IX.NETCOM.COM">
To: Erielack <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 11:34 PM
Subject: (erielack) Plastic Steam


>Nope.  Not talkin' Bachmann or Athearn.  Talkin' pages 42 'n' 43 of the May
>Mainline Modeler.  A _talented_ modeler of Erie and DL&W Steam.  I never
>would have begun to think of scratchbuilding an L-1 0-8-8-0 in plastic . .
>.
>
>BTW, two errors in the article, in the same caption:
>
>L-1 is mis-classed as an "E" class
>
>It is identified as "the Erie's first articulated"  T'aint so, is it, Tony?
>
>Further BTW:
>
>We have Adamses in the Society, but no Donald.  We got a Gerald, a Richard,
>a Greg, a Michael, a Gene, and a Frank, but no Donald.  Anybody out there
>know this man?
>
>SGL
>
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