Re: T&P 610-Wait What?

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> Hold the phone---Whats with that green jacket?

That post was within a thread about green jackets, so it was meant to show approximately
what #610 might have looked like if Southern had painted her in passenger colors.  Besides,
I had a reputation to maintain ...    

> Secondly, I thought you were saying steam is
> better than diesels, yet there is a stinkin' diesel
> behind the 610.  Hard to believe with as
> big of an engine that 2-10-4 is.

Santa Fé insisted on the diseasel, as #610 was newly restored and unproven.  She hadn't run in about 25 years, IIRC, before being restored at a cost of roughly $300,000 for just three weeks with the AFT.

> Nice catching the 4449 with it though.

Thanks, Greg!  IIRC my current avatar photo was taken only a day or two later while both engines were in Ft. Worth.

> Southern had some issues with 610, which is
> why they got rid of it.


Probably with the firebox, Greg -

Although I don't know for sure - or maybe just too long a wheelbase for some of their curvier lines.  IIRC the T&P had firebox troubles with several of #610's sisters, and replaced their as-built 'articulated frame' trailing trucks - which directly supported the rear corners of the firebox - with extended frames and 'modern' cast-steel trailing trucks on the majority of their 2-10-4's.   SFAIK, #610 is the only surviving example of Will Woodard's original super-power design - see first photo on [ngdiscussion.net].  IIRC all of the similar B&A and Erie 2-8-4's have long since been scrapped.

- Roosso



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/24/2015 11:54AM by Russo Loco.