Reply to "Ten Steam Locomotives you would save"

StuartOGR Forum Member

Hot Water posted:
bbunge posted:
Far more successful but often over looked are Virginian's 10 class AE 2-10-10-2's, built by ALCO in 1918, which worked for 30 years, mostly unmodified, with a TE over over 135,000 lbs (as much as 176,000 lbs in simple!). Largest cylinders (48-inches) and largest boiler barrel diameter (118.5 inches).
Wouldn't it be grand to see a pair of these shoving a coal drag up the 2.11% grade at Elmore. You could likely just about jog along side them.
Bob
The main reason that those Virginian AE class 2-10-10-2 locomotives were so successful was,,,,,,,,,they were compounds.

That, and they were properly designed and proportioned.

Stuart

10/24/197:31 PM

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