I was learning to play 500 the other night when I noticed the discards were arranged 4of clubs, 6 of diamonds, 2 of clubs. I said to my friend 4-6-2, that is a Pacific. (I had just got back from a Strasburg, PA trip so my mind was on trains.) We started a short conversation on a train poker that cold be played with 4-6-2 beating a 4-4-2 on so on. Now for the fight!!!
What’s the better hand?
4-8-8-4 or 2-6-6-6?
Keep all your Derringers’ ready!
Hi Kolov
I’ve never been a card player which I attribute to watching my relatives play Pinochle. I was a teenager before I found that a referee was not manditory for this game. Your idea makes sense to me at least as much sense as any other card game.
Ole
I would say drivers beat leading and trailing trucks. [;)]
Yea but don’t forget: The Pennsylvania Railroad trumps all others
Dale
I would say that the Big Boy would win.
Of course if you add in what the trains are pulling it could tip the balance.
Does a 4-8-8-4 pulling a King beat the 2-6-6-6 pulling 10?
Maybe just forget about the whole thing.
Three of a kind always beats two pair in any kind of poker I know about and it is also according to Hoyle!
Stinking Diesels are of course always discards!
I was not even thinking about diesels, I guess they are all 4-4’s or 6-6’s.
On a tangent here is this the first time that the Allegheny and Big Boy are ina Lionel catalog together?
Dale,
The Pennsylvania was started by several rich men in the Pennsylvania area and reached number one but there was feirce competiton in the railroad industry in the mid 70’s to late 80’s and many railroads went under or were bought out by Con-Rail. The Pennsy & New York Central attempted one last round by merging to form Penn Central around 1980. The Pennsy had a T1 that had a 4-4-4-4 wheel arrangement or an S2 that had a 6-6-6 wheel arrangement. Don’t forget about the GG1, one of the most powerful single unit locomotives.
Lee
The only Pennsylvania S2s I know were the Alco Bo-Bo switcher and the 6-8-6 steam turbine. The Lionel 671 and its ilk are greatly undersized models of the one example of the latter, PRR-6200.