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Re: “Escape from Limbo”—A Very Strange 1953 PRR Safety Film |
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Posted by sloth on Sat Oct 31 01:04:31 2026, in response to Re: “Escape from Limbo”—A Very Strange 1953 PRR Safety Film, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 30 03:15:41 2026. Well, that's an interesting one. A C&O design forced on them by the circumstances, and mostly successful. They would have probably ordered a fleet of Q2's if left to their own devices.I've spent a good deal of time with Oscar Orr's recollections in Set Up Running, and he was a huge fan of the L1 2-8-2. Hated the Decapods. Someone had the foresight to put a slightly modified Decapod boiler on 72" driving wheels and make one last great in-house freight engine. I don't think the PRR was necessarily doomed to fail. They became institutionally complacent and arrogant. The motive power decisions were almost always bad after the GG1, dicking around with duplexes and turbines and third-string diesel manufacturers. I would have liked them to slide-rule the M1a into a super power Northern, tho it wouldn't have run past 1957 regardless. |
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