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Reply to "Pacifics doing freight duty"

@Strummer posted:

This is a good topic, since the 4-6-2 is a common model...as are freight cars. 🙂

In the Pennsy book "Set Up Running" the E class Atlantics were mentioned being used on work trains; kinda the same thing, no?

Well, no not really. Those E class Atlantics, after being bumped from main line passenger service, would have been "down-graded" to such menial jobs as work trains, prior to going to scrap. Also an Atlantic (4-4-2) would probably have made a pretty bad freight engine what with just two large diameter drive wheels.

Mark in Oregon

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