And thank you for that. Every time I dig into my several foot tall virtual stack of S-160 information I learn something new. We recently learned...
An update to posts I made a couple years ago - I have been researching USATC Consolidations for over six years. As I said in my earlier posts, I...
An article in "Trains" magazine, December, 1964, was written by the Col. Howard Hill, designer of the USATC standard gauge 2-8-2 and 0-6-0 side...
The parts were supposed to interchange between manufactures. There were a few variations, such as modifications to US standards (bell, knuckle...
A common claim is that a major deficiency of the S160s was that the driver journal bearings used grease instead of oil, resulting in many...
A claim often made is that the S160 was based on a late 1930s USATC 2-8-0 design. Other than wheel arrangement, there is little in common between...
I'm making several posts about S160 minutia. There is a lot of lore about this class of locomotive, some of it is even true. Some just doesn't...
Concerning S160 ex-Alaska Railroad #557/ex-USATC 3523/Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's number 70480, built in 1944. Our overhaul is making...
John, By the way - our drivers were probably turned and quartered on the Niles equipment that you shipped to the U.S. I found a web post saying...
It hasn’t been the thrust of my research, but I haven’t had any luck in finding any U.S. government records covering the purchase contracts or...
There is a Ron Ziel article in “Locomotive & Railway Preservation” (a long-defunct U.S. magazine), September-October, 1986, titled “Final...
I am one of the group restoring S160 ex-Alaska Railroad #557/ex-USATC 3523/Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's number 70480, built in 1944. I've...
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