Reply to "This is the steam locomotive I'd like to see on the rails again."

AFAIK, nobody ever out axle weighted the C&O H8. I'm guessing that this was an insurance policy over the fact that she's a six coupled design, and hence more likely to bust loose on the same TE as an eight coupled machine.  If Chessie had upped the boiler pressure and run these big girls in flatter country by policy, they'd have done much better, cost wise.  In the real world, N&W laughs all the way to the bank!