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Re: (erielack) Plastic Steam

Whoops!  MY error on the dates.  I was SURE that the 2-6-8-0 was _before_
the 0-8-8-0.  Well, learn something every day - took me a long time today!

SGL

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> From: Tony Horn <"horn_@_HUB.ofthe.NET">
> To: Schuyler G. Larrabee <"SGL2_@_IX.NETCOM.COM">; Erielack
<"erielack_@_internexus.net">
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Plastic Steam
> Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 10:16 PM
> 
> 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 .

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