@harmonyards posted:Although I can appreciate your tactics change, since you’re losing the argument, you are the one that cited boiler pressures, tractive efforts, etc......I’ve never seen those listed on the side of those purple or orange boxes?...am I missing something??......and the LTD. is so famous, so entrenched in literature, it’s even part of anything to do with the Art Deco time period!....the Chief??.....Chief who??....plllllllllleaseee.....try again.....gosh, I’d thought for sure you’d bring up the El’ Capitan before the Chief!....
Pat
Tactical change? From the one who went from NYC Hudsons can't compete on technical/statistical level to there were more of them so they were obviously better? All I did was point out the fallacy in the quantity = quality argument 
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If anything SP's GS4 class Northerns are the most entrenched, well know, representation of Art Deco style in railroading. The 1937 20th Century Limited is a distant 2nd or 3rd, behind the Super Chief.
It also helps that all the best railroading icons still exist in physical form for future generations to appreciate .
