Friends:

Please remember this is not a history of car technology and engineering message board. While I agree it is very interesting it's not our focus.

Tom Gears
Moderator

Tom -

Thanks for saying that. Here was a very nice short video of a class of steam locomotive (Pere Marquette 2-10-2's) that we probably would never had gotten if not for the car "commercial". Along with some nice close ups of PM steam era boxcars, and rail workers, including one "riding the high cars" near the brake wheel in case anything went wrong. But somehow, the thread went the way of the automobile, and the steamers and steam era railroading were ignored. I too could have added my two cents about car technology, but decided to refrain. Oh well.

Les