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I have never heard a 3 cylinder locomotive, nor have I heard a recording.  I have always heard "Offbeat Thunder" as a description, so that lead me to believe the drivers were quartered with the center crankpin at 45 degrees.  Not so, apparently - these things are 120 degrees apart on crankpins, which would lead me to believe six evenly spaced chuffs per revolution.

The big Baldwin was quartered, but it was a compound.  Nobody alive heard that one.

That makes this a wildly uneducated comment.  And on re-reading, one with too much lead content.

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