10-16-2012, 04:04 PM
modelsof1900 Wrote:Really, this isn't the common look of an American engine!
We in Germany have had thousend and more such elephant eared engines. All passeneger engines of former Deutsche Reichsbahn (1925 to 1950 or 60) were equipped with smoke deflectors. In later years our engines have had smaller deflectors positioned in over half of boiler at smokebox. And this was the ordinary look of our passenger engines. But Amerikan engines?
I know the UP challenegers and the D&H engines an the NYC Niagaras. All they were seldom looking engines in my eyes with their smoke deflectors - but now also B&O engines!
No, I would like to see American engines without smoke deflectors, please!
modelsof1900,
Sorry, but these locomotives on the B&O were RARE to see, as there was only 2 of them on the whole railroad. The B&O's Motive Power department deemed the smoke deflectors, to expensive to add to the whole class or go any further on the whole fleet of locomotives on the system!
They were however, different looking on the B&O and made the 2-8-2's that had them, stick out as it was a different sight to see.
Thing is, its unlikely to find many of them with pictures as I only know of the one I posted, online, and the other one I know of is in the book "B&O Power" from 1964.
~John AKA "Yellowstone" OR "EM-1"