Jace and All,
I tried to point the Western Allegheny connection, but the message
bounced. I book I just bought has photos of a typical WA coal train. An H on
the front, 11 cars of coal, an NX23 cabin car, and another H shoving on the
rear! It's like a mini Shamokin Branch! (For the unwashed, an NX23 is a cabin
car/caboose the PRR made from pre-WWI single sheathed boxcars during WWII, and
the Shamokin Branch saw 100 car ore trains hauled by 3 or 4 I1 1-10-0's.) From
a business stand point, I don't fault SHS for choosing the B&O engine, but
Howie, Bill Lane, and I would have been thrilled with a PRR 2-8-0!
Jamie Bothwell
Bethlehem, PA
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:19 PM, JGG KahnSr wrote:
>
> ... if I wanted to do the digging, I might find a few more sales of H8/9/10's
> to smaller operations (I've already noted the WA, which had several). I don't
> really count the LI or PRSL, where the H's were primary freight power, as
> they were PRR subsidiaries.
> On the whole, however, I still maintain that if SHS was going to do only ONE
> 2-8-0, it should not have been as conspicuously road-specific as a PRR. If
> the S scale market were
> larger, perhaps manufacturers could entertain the idea of PRR steam
> locomotives for mass-market production IN ADDITION TO more standard appearing
> ones.
> ...
> Jace Kahn
>
> General Manager
> Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
>
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