Harley,
You obviously are a student of at least logging mallets. I have crawled over
the chassis of the Skookum on numerous occasions to study the mechanism
and am quite familiar with the double hinge arrangment you mention. I am
interested in the changes Baldwin made in the 148 design to corr
Steve and all,
The original SP cab forwards were 2-8-8-2's and 2-6-6-2's(soon to be 4-6-6-2's).
The former were built with 57 inch drivers for freight use, the latter with 63"
drivers
for passenger use. The 4 wheel lead truck was added to keep the locos on the
track at passenger speeds. Both we
