tackett@wivax.UUCP (Raymond Tackett) (02/23/84)
: I enjoyed the 4-8-8-4 discussion. Let's try another. I seem to remember a 2-10-10-2 Mallet Articulated (?) running on a mountainous route out west. Anybody know? -- /////\\\\\ \ \ / / From the brightly colored, ever opening 'chute \ / of NOID Ray Tackett
johne@haddock.UUCP (02/28/84)
#R:wivax:-1922500:haddock:15300012:000:543 haddock!johne Feb 27 17:54:00 1984 Santa Fe had 2-10-10-2 Mallets running over Raton Pass. It seems to me that they were built of spliced conventional 2-10-2's (the "Santa Fe" type), proved unwieldy, and were shortly rebuilt to conventional engines. Early in this century Santa Fe was very enthusiastic about various schemes of compounding (e.g. Mallets), but that enthusiasm apparently gave rise to very few lasting examples of the technology. I'm sure there were other 2-10-10-2's out west; the Santa Fe examples I happen to recall at the moment. John Ewing, Boston