Re: D&RGW 464 question
| February 12, 2019 04:54PM |
I'll take a little different slant on this... it doesn't cost anything to dream 
. A visit from MI to CO/NM would be pretty cool... a double header with 463, or maybe with 315 thrown in as well, would be pretty amazing.
As for the superheater, they were "soak" engines for a good part of their career, with about the same rated TE. Was 462 rated for less tonnage than the others at the end? She was the last non-superheated one... I thought she could still pull about the same, but the fireman had to throw more coal to make the same amount of steam???
The Huckleberry looks like the best home a locomotive could have, so I'd hate to see her leave that. At times I 've thought it would make a suitable home for some EBT equipment, if a new home for that is needed someday. But I don't get to make those rules, and it isn't fair for me to armchair quarterback that stuff.
Avisit to narrow gauge land for 464 though, would be Ok in my book.
. A visit from MI to CO/NM would be pretty cool... a double header with 463, or maybe with 315 thrown in as well, would be pretty amazing. As for the superheater, they were "soak" engines for a good part of their career, with about the same rated TE. Was 462 rated for less tonnage than the others at the end? She was the last non-superheated one... I thought she could still pull about the same, but the fireman had to throw more coal to make the same amount of steam???
The Huckleberry looks like the best home a locomotive could have, so I'd hate to see her leave that. At times I 've thought it would make a suitable home for some EBT equipment, if a new home for that is needed someday. But I don't get to make those rules, and it isn't fair for me to armchair quarterback that stuff.
Avisit to narrow gauge land for 464 though, would be Ok in my book
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