And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
One of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s streamlined 4-6-2’s, lead power for the “Broadway Limited,” poses next to a pair of Studebaker’s, circa 1939.
The Pennsy had 25k steam locomotives including some that produced 6k hp and one dyno tested at 8k hp. It was operating costs that killed steam not lack of power.
There is a group building a modern Pennsylvania steam locomotive called the T1 Project. Videos on YouTube are fascinating. This was a 6500 hp 4-4-4-4 locomotive with 4 cylinders and valves like an internal combustion engine. Probably weighed 250 tons. Their progress is amazing.
Ah, steam engines. As a lad I visited plenty of loco depots in London, Birmingham and Derby. Mostly diesels by that time, although there were plenty of decommissioned steam sitting around gathering rust. Quite a few of the ones I tagged have since been restored and now running on heritage lines. I know that if I saw a Big Boy in motion I'd fall to my knees weeping.
4 in the front, 6 in the middle, 2 in the rear
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ReplyDeleteThe Pennsy had 25k steam locomotives including some that produced 6k hp and one dyno tested at 8k hp. It was operating costs that killed steam not lack of power.
ReplyDeleteThere is a group building a modern Pennsylvania steam locomotive called the T1 Project. Videos on YouTube are fascinating. This was a 6500 hp 4-4-4-4 locomotive with 4 cylinders and valves like an internal combustion engine. Probably weighed 250 tons. Their progress is amazing.
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ReplyDeleteAh, steam engines. As a lad I visited plenty of loco depots in London, Birmingham and Derby. Mostly diesels by that time, although there were plenty of decommissioned steam sitting around gathering rust. Quite a few of the ones I tagged have since been restored and now running on heritage lines. I know that if I saw a Big Boy in motion I'd fall to my knees weeping.
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