John Ott jgorr11@yahoo.com [Civil_War_RRs] <Civil_War_RRs@yahoogroups.com> September 10, 2016 All - This subject has previously been discussed at length in mid-June of this year. I've cut/pasted some
Just to throw a spanner in the works, the 275 built by Pittsburgh in 1882 may not have been the first use of that number, as the Burlington had 388 engines at the end of 1881 and almost all of them w
Couple of additional points. According to a table in the 1879-80 Illinois Railroad & Warehouse Commission Report, the average life of an engine was 18 years. Plenty of time between the 1858 list and
All- Something ain’t adding up. First of all, I agree with Louis….it cannot be a 4-2-0….the main rod is at such an angle that it could not connect to a driver far enough back to mak
All- Looking further at the tintype I noticed the forward steam dome (no sand dome) has what appears to be a group of three (maybe four) safety valves shaped like round bottles with long necks.that m