Re: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@domain.elided> wrote:

> There's a UP "Big Boy" in the St. Louis County
> Transportation Museum.  Hard to imagine something like
> that moving.

there's another on static display at Steamtown in Scranton
(which has become a very nice facility since the national
park service took it over and moved it there from Bellows
Falls; under private ownership at Bellows Falls it was
an impressive but slowly deterioriating collection. under
the NPS, there are fewer engines in much better shape.)

--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:
> Sorta light compared to, say, one of the UP's old
> 'Big Boy' steam mallets

technically, the Big Boy was not a Mallet, which was
an earlier variantion on the articulated theme. there
were a couple of technical features that distinguished
the Mallet, all of which escape me now.

richard
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