| Posted by Tom on March 24, 2014 | |
Maybe I'm showing my age here. No doubt this is new, streamlined, technologically advanced, but just give me an ol' F7 covered wagon locomotive.
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| Posted by Dana M. on March 25, 2014 | |
Not to be disrespectful either, but I agree with Tom, only I like the nose of the N&W J 4-8-4 No. 611, The Baldwin "Sharks", the Alco PA's, and any F or E unit! Classic noses all of them!
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| Posted by huebi on March 25, 2014 | |
I agree with Tom and Dana M.
But what will be the opinion of our children and grandchildren 25 years later?
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| Posted by Tom on March 26, 2014 | |
May I add this comment, please. I agree about the N & W 611. So much so that when I departed from 611 after I rode her from Jacksonville, IL to Griggsville, IL back in the late 1980's, I walked to her nice smooth rounded black nose, rubbed it, and marveled at her beauty. Little did I know then how many times I would be glad to have done that now that I see her picture occasionally on this website.
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Yes this high speed train esthetic is not the same as F7 steam... But remember that this trainsets can run up to 198 mph (320 Km/h) and need to be more aerodynamical than F7 who have only run at 120 mph... The same kind of high speed train has the world record at 357 mph (574,8 Km/h), see RPN # 227277 !!!
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| Posted by Dana M. on March 27, 2014 | |
To reply to Daniel: So this train can do 198 or 200 mph. I present the case for the Union Pacific F-E-F-3 4-8-4 Number 844 - the ONLY U.S. steam locomotive to NEVER be retired from a U.S. railroad roster. The only reason the 844 was never retired is because when the UP passenger train "City of Los Angeles" E units failed stranding the passenger train en-route to L.A., the ONLY locomotive UP had to send to rescue it was the 844. When 844 got the passenger train under power again, the train was three hours behind schedule to arrive in L.A. After reaching the speed of 100+ mph to make up time, when the "City of L.A." arrived at LAUPT - it was 20 minutes AHEAD of schedule. Now that's the reliability of the UP F-E-F-3 4-8-4 #844 steam engine. The 844 became Union Pacific's "Flagship" locomotive as the Corporate Image and the Union Pacific "Ambassador" of Public Relations.
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