(erielack) Erie 2 - 10 - 4

[RJFlei_@_aol.com]

Schuyler,
    You are right. It would be a BIG locomotive. With those 77" drivers, it 
would have been in a class with the Santa Fe 5000's. They certainly would not 
have been merely "drag" engines. You sure wouldn't want to run them anywhere 
where the curves were on the tight side.
    Looking at the dimensions of the 2-6-6-4, it looks to me that it would be 
very comparable to the N&W Class A. Of course, economics rule, as you said, 
but one might wonder what might have happened at that time if times were 
good. The Erie might just have been a little more progressive than most of 
the other roads at that time, in motive power policy, had things been 
different.

Rick Fleischer
Cortland, Oh.
ELHS 1426

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