11-26-2010, 09:20 PM
Uh ... Gary ...
Does this look like a locomotive that hung around some yard, schlepping 40' boxcars?
![[Image: AtlanticCityRRP11027.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Prototype%20Railroading/AtlanticCityRRP11027.jpg)
This sweetheart, nicknamed the "Boardwalk Flyer," hauled the railroads finest varnish at unheard of speeds, speeds so fast they were considered at the time to be breaking God's Laws of Nature, truly blasphemous speeds according to "God-fearing people!"
This is P1 Class #1027, built in 1896 and is the speed record holder, which it set in 1897, with 84 1/4" drivers and weighing in at 153,800 pounds. Check out the Vauclain compound cylinders! (Those trailing wheels are 54" in diameter!)
Does this look like a locomotive that hung around some yard, schlepping 40' boxcars?
This sweetheart, nicknamed the "Boardwalk Flyer," hauled the railroads finest varnish at unheard of speeds, speeds so fast they were considered at the time to be breaking God's Laws of Nature, truly blasphemous speeds according to "God-fearing people!"
This is P1 Class #1027, built in 1896 and is the speed record holder, which it set in 1897, with 84 1/4" drivers and weighing in at 153,800 pounds. Check out the Vauclain compound cylinders! (Those trailing wheels are 54" in diameter!)
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln