-> RJ> IMHO. #3985 made it over Cajon Pass and down through San Berdoo,
-> RJ> Riverside and Ontario, Calif. just a few years ago pulling an RJ>
-> excursion train without any trouble. THAT was a wonderful sight to
-> RJ> see!
-> But that's in the west where most railroads learned they needed
-> massive articulateds and to run them, they also had to have more
-> graceful curves.
   Well...any railroads east of the Mississippi Valley are really irrelevant 
anyway.    ];-{)
-> They tried but it wasn't to feasible to convert to oil due to the
-> firebox that the BigBoy has.
   Why is that? I was surprised to notice that the Big Boy at the Fairplex 
was coal, as I thought that all new steam engines by that time were oil 
burners. You can tell I haven't studied the historical side of things in 
depth since a generic feel is usually good enough for my modeling.
Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows.
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