Well, Jerry –
At least, as JBWX and Roosso often remind us, I updated the Subject line when I answered Earl Knoob's (IMHO not so) silly
post hijack
. . .
Well, kinda silly after all - the S.P. Mallets / Articulateds that had whaleback tenders were the early ones with air pumps on the sides of the boilers. Per Robert Church's excellent book on the Cab-Forwards, the first ones with air pumps on the end of the smokebox were the AC-6 series – the last with the flat-face cabs – and SFAIK they were the only ones with the big semi-Vanderbilt tenders, not the whaleback tenders of fifteen or twenty years before.
And look at the who's who of those commenting on Earl's clever association based on your photo – John West, Stewart Rhine, 'Popeye' (IIRC a C&TS machinist), Will Gant, Everett Leuck, Kelly Anderson, Dave Grant, George Gaskill – other than myself and that disgusting clown Roosso it's mostly a pretty serious bunch of railroaders, preservationists and phraud-o-graphers®. IMHO, you need to lighten up.
- Sincerely,
Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2019 11:32AM by Johnson Barr.