Having long eschewed Berkshires as "eastern" locos, and favored Mountains as
"western" locos, it is always interesting to read these postings and find it reinforced
that loco wheel arrangement stereptypes, such as Pacifics just for passenger, did not apply in the prototypical world. Paint job not withstanding, the Southern did not operate its Mountains in the Rockies, and was, decidedly, a (south) eastern RR.
