Yet Consolidations, Pacifics and many others are the same for everyone.
I heard of CPR consolidations being called Mudhens. The 4-6-4 is properly
known as the Baltic.
How do railroads think when they name a type.
The Whyte system is more accurate but it is clinically “dry”. I imagine
names made better advertising.
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It seems that only North America has this "fetish" for naming all wheel
arrangements.
In the UK, for example, the only names that were commonly used were/are
4-6-2 "Pacific", "Prairie" and then usually in regards to ex GWR 2-6-2Ts,
2-6-0 "Mogul", 4-4-2 "Atlantic", 2-2-2 "Single" and 4-6-4 "Baltic".
Few, if any of the other Whyte names were ever used.
Cheers.
Roger T.
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http://www.islandnet.com/~rogertra/
