It's not box pox, but rather boxpox. It is one word
pronouced "box spokes".
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- fdlnmn@s... wrote:
> The main differences between the Baldwin (early)
> 4-8-4s are in the
> feedwater heaters and the drivers (although the cabs
> can help in your
> identification)
> The early locomotives had a distinctive
> cylendrical shaped elesco
> feedwater heater mounted on top of the smokebox. On
> the later models
> most of the extra plumbing was behind a shield on
> the pilot.
> Also, the early O5s had spoked drivers, not box
> pox. At least it
> was that way until they were slowly refitted with
> box pox main
> drivers to reduce pounding on the rails.
> Just remember 5600-5607 Are O5. After that use
> the tender to pick
> between O5A and O5B
>
>
>
> --- In BRHSlist@y..., atsf3460@a... wrote:
> > I'd like to know the "proper" answer to this as
> well. I lump all
> the early
> > 4-8-4s into the class O5. When you get to the the
> O5s with
> vestibule cabs I
> > add the suffix and call them all O5as. Only when
> they get
> converted to oil
> > burners do I call them O5bs. The engines that
> don't follow this
> rule are the
> > middle versions that have modern drivers but no
> vestibule cab - I
> guess is
> > just lump them in with the early O5s. Right now I
> don't have any
> models of
> > this class so I don't worry about it! Even though
> there are three
> versions
> > (four if you count the oil burners) of "Q" 4-8-4s
> the railroad (I
> think?)
> > probably just called 'em O5s or #5600s.
> >
> > Mike Martin (who would still love to pace a
> fired-up #5600 at 80mph
> on US34
> > someday) - Peoria Heights, IL
>
>
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