Rich Melvin posted:As a point of continuing education...
Geysergazer, when a locomotive loses traction and spins the wheels, it is called a “slip.” The term “spun out “ was never used to describe this event.
Rich, thanks. Be that as it may, the description I think my fuzzy brain remembers from that many-years-ago Trains article was that, when a T1 slipped it was more like a Detroit Diesel running-off with the governor stuck. Hence my use of a non-authentic term.
That Wiki pic is of the prototype T1 and IIRC it was especially prone to wheel slip because suspension equalization geometry wasn't quite right, a problem they rectified for the production run. The picture really fits.