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 Post subject: Italian high wheeler
PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:58 pm 

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Check out the motion on this Mogul, taken New Years Day:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=182395


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 Post subject: Re: Italian high wheeler
PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:01 pm 
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Ah, the wonderfully quirky 640 class machines with outside valve gear and inside rods! The first good picture I saw of one was in a Pizza Hut restaurant; it showed the engine’s crew standing in front of the drive wheels, if I recall correctly. All of the chain’s restaurants were remodeled a few years ago, and the original black & white photos that used to be found in Pizza Huts disappeared.

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 Post subject: Re: Italian high wheeler
PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:39 pm 

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Quite a few of these are preserved, and operating. I have a color paperback text on these engines (in Italian). These came in a variety of valve gear and boiler configurations. Some had caprotti, some had funky feedwater heaters where the smoke exhausted above the cab.

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