Re: Late 1800's wheel profile?

Wayne Hoskin Wrote:
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> You can have blind front drivers, providing of
> that there is a pilot truck, I don't know
> specifically but I would imagine the front truck
> may have to be a 4 wheel one and not 2 wheel
> (could be wrong though), I don't know about
> American practice but it is common here in
> Australia. Can't say I have ever heard of blind
> rear drivers.
>
> Wayne


Here in the USA there were standard gauge 2-8-0s built in the 1870-1900 period where the #1 & #3 drivers were blind. Even fewer where the #2 and the #4 were blind. By 1900 it was rather rare to see these odd arrangements as they were found to be sub-par at keeping the locos on the rails.

Cheers,

Curtis F.