Howdy gents...and ladies,
Here's a little note about River Rasin's Espee 2-10-2's being 'Decapods.'
All over the "rest-of-the-world" a 2-10-2 was known for the RR that first used
that wheel
arrangement in the early 1900's. (1903 or 04 or there abouts). That RR was the
ATSF.
Now...think about the 'good-ol'-daze' of friendly? RR compitition. Why would
the SP want to
call one of their locos a 'Santa Fe' type? Well, as a matter of fact...they
didn't! Perhaps taking
their cue from Whyte's classification system of wheel arrangements they found a
way out, and
that 'could' have been Espees way of looking at a 2-10-2 as a 10-coupled loco.
Therefore, no
need to call it a Santa Fe type...so OURS will be known as a 'Decapod.'
So...everywhere else it's a Santa Fe type, but heaven forbid, NOT on the SP. To
them it was a
Decapod. Therefore, River Rasin IS correct.
Don
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