Re: (erielack) Erie Steam Locomotive (fwd)

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

Roger, photos of this engine are very hard to find, other than the one
published in ERIE POWER, by Fred Westing and Alvin Staufer.

From Railroad History, No 131, which contains the ERIE roster by Gerald M
Best:
"Built at Meadville Shops 4/1910 from H-22 No 1830, with a 2-6-0 unit
supplied by Baldwin.  It was first numbered 2900, then back to 1830 during
trial service, then converted back to H-22 at Susquehanna 2/19/1916.  It was
converted to an 0-8-0, H-22A, later C-2, 7/1918."

Interesting that they tried this out for almost six years.  I wonder if it
really got much use after a few years.  It simply didn't have the firebox
and steaming capacity to supply two sets of cylinders, even if it was a true
Mallet, with double expansion use of the steam.

One also wonders what the Susquehanna boys had to say about those guys in
Meadville . . .

SGL

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Subject: (erielack) Erie Steam Locomotive (fwd)


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> George Elwood
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> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 04:23:05 -0500
> From: "Caldow, Roger H." <Roger.Caldow_@_jhuapl.edu>
> To: "'gelwood_@_dnaco.net'" <gelwood@dnaco.net>
> Subject: Erie Steam Locomotive
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> I am looking for a picture of an Erie articulated camelback. It may be a
M-1
> 2-6-8-0. I saw it in painting, but have been unable to find a picture. I
am
> sure the artist did not free lance the painting, but used a photo.
> Were any Erie articulateds converted from camelbacks to normal cab aft
> configurations?
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