(erielack) Doubleheaders

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Harold Brink asked me, offlist, with reference to the "Photos" thread, the following question:
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Were tandem locomotives common?  If so, where when, etc?  I never saw them in real life as I recall.
Although I wasn't everywhere all the time and it was a long time ago.
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There were two locomotives on that train in the photos.

I concede I don't know the real answer to this.  Rich Young, you have any idea?  It does seem to me
that there are enough photos of double-headed steam (and of course, the four and five-headed pushers
up the grade out of Scranton to Ararat) that this must have been fairly common where warranted by
tonnage and grades.  But was it an every day sort of thing, or a couple times a week, or what?

Too obvious to mention, but I'll do it anyway:  We're talking steam era here . . . 

SGL


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