Re: [CBQ] A Q 4-8-6

["spsalso via groups.io" <Edwardsutorik=aol.com@groups.io>]

I'm sure that it's just coincidental that this topic was started on the same day that the following video showed on Youtube:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGqPoq_BImk

 

 

While being a wild and crazy guy, the narrator does pretty much explain why it's all, uh, hooey.

 

Considering how short the wheelbase was for the original trailing truck on the O-5, it seems odd that someone would expect to add another axle into that wheelbase.

 

IF that 6 wheel trailing truck would have been applied to a Northern, I think it would have been done on a NP engine--something like a class A.  NP was pretty famous for having giant fireboxes and grates, so as to burn their free garbage coal.  But it still would have been pointless without a consequent larger firebox above that new trailing truck.

 

Nope:  HOOEY!

 

 

The Lima 4-8-6 proposal was covered in an article in a Trains reprint edition.  I've still got it here, somewhere.  It included an impressive illustration.  Besides the 6 wheel trailing truck it also had a "double-Belpaire" firebox, fancy valve gear, and a Delta trailing truck on its centipede tender.  70" drivers, as I recall.

 

 

Ed

 

Edward Sutorik

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