I want flying pumps on all my engines, which makes me a fan of C&O Mikados, and their brow-mounted Elescos and coal-firing Vanderbilts, which these UP's don't have (all oil fired?). IF l find photos of an 0-4-0, as well as Moguls and Consolidations, or other small engines, with pumps and Elescos (may never have existed!), or been logical, l will modify my free-lanced road's locos to include those. One of my earliest childhood railroad photo exposures was to a Kalmbach book picturing Rio Grande's articulateds with "busy" smokeboxes.
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