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Wow, talk about an atmospheric shot.
Northwoods Flyer
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OOOO, calendar art worthy!
“As The Polar Expresses Pass In The Night.”
And why not? It worked for the New York Central!
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Hey, I’ve got one of those! What a beast!
I think if you aimed one at a wall it’d smash right through it!
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I’m sure that’s what Raymond Leowy had in mind! 
One of his GG-1’s did exactly that in Washington DC!
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that GG1 laying in the basement of Washington Union Station like a beached whale! 
Of course we can laugh about it because thank God no-one got killed!
Robert C. Reed’s very excellent book TRAIN WRECKS – A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line provides a very good account of the 1953 Washington, D.C. terminal disaster.
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Class K-4 Pacific 2-6-2 Locomotive No. 2025
(Lionel’s version left off one of the prototype’s leading truck axles.)
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The early postwar locos with bright wheel rims are my favorites.
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I’ve got one of those! It’s a great runner but the exterior’s a bit shabby. It’ll be my next repaint project as soon as the weather stabilizes and I can start painting again in the Chugger Barn, can’t do it in the house!
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Lionel seemed to have a number of steamers that left off the 2 axle leading truck in favor of a single axle pony truck. Was the 2 axle truck prone to derailment?
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I don’t think they really worried so much about accuracy as they did reliability. Yes, it’s entirely possible that they had trouble with a 4 wheel pilot truck. But for the semi scale locos like the 675/2025/2035 I suspect getting a finished working prototype ready for mass production as early as possible outweighed most considerations. And when Magnetraction came along they deleted the cast detailed trailing truck and nickel rimmed Baldwin disc drivers to keep the costs down. So the 2-6-2 became a 2-6-4. Is that an Citnalta? A backwards Atlantic? 
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I have found that in general, my locos with 4 wheel leading trucks are more sensitive to imprecise trackwork.
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I think it would be a Cificap 
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Oh wow, the classic! What more can we say? 
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