Re: (erielack) Texas Types on the Delaware Division.

["Schuyler G Larrabee" <sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com>]

Tom Beckett teased:

> OK, how about 2-10-4s pushing out of Deposit and Susquehanna? Alright,
I'll
> stop now, before you guys think I'm an SPF( Slobbering Pennsy Fan)!!

Oh, Tom, I've often fantasized about 2-10-4's on those grades (not pushing,
however) but I have been thinking about the never-built-but-conceptualized
Erie engines which are shown on page 331 of Erie Power.  I have a PRR J1
here (it belongs to a friend, for whom I am supposed to paint it one of
these years . . . ) and its drivers scale off at about 65-66".  That Erie
engine was designed to have >>>77"<<< drivers!  16'-4" high!  Total
wheelbase:  100' - 9 1/4"!  These would have been BIG engines!

And don't get me started on the 2-6-6-4!

But 1930 was a tough time to be thinking about new steam engines . . .

Darn!

SGL

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