logging 4-6-0

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I can't seem to recall if it was the Little River Logging outfit or some other, but I think it was back in the Carolinas they ran a very small 4-6-2 Pacific! A google search would probably turn up more info. I've never seen any pacific outside of brass that isn't USRA. Even the 'light' pacifics might be too heavy over the drivers for logging rail.

Galen,
You remember it correctly. The Little River did have a 4-6-2. It wasn't really a pacific. It had a 4-wheel lead truck, but the 2-wheel rear truck was for tracking, not for supporting a larger firebox. The pacific design was to add a firebox to a ten wheeler (the same reason that the British "Baltics" were NOT hudsons). Still, the Little River 4-6-2 is usually called the smallest standard gauge pacific in the US. Not only are the drivers smaller than those of the EBT 2-8-2s, but its smaller than the big EBT 2-8-2s IIRC. The Little River also had the 2-4-4-2 which has been modeled a number of times. The first one was too large, so a second was ordered. I'll be seeing the Little River 4-6-2 for the first time in my life this summer...she's in Michigan. One of our members, his name has his Ham radio call sign as his name and Cartman as his avatar, is a member of the Little River museum in Tennessee.