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Author:  bobyar2001 [ Mon May 21, 2007 8:56 pm ]
Post subject:  French doubleheader
Impressive photo taken just recently of an SNCF 241 (4-8-2) leading a North American-built 141 (2-8-2) in France:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=187923
Author:  Kevin Gillespie [ Mon May 21, 2007 9:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: French doubleheader
Quelle jolie. Ces sont magnifique. Beautiful engines Bob. Thanks for sharing. They're almost as beautiful as French women.

Kevin
Author:  adammil1 [ Mon May 21, 2007 10:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: French doubleheader
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141 (2-8-2) in France


Wow, got to love the French a "1-4-1" have to do everything contrary to the norm! :) My dad's an electrical engineer and he tells all sorts of stories of working with French standards.

The best is television, there are 3 standards, their is the US system and was designed to be backwards complaint with everyone's old black and white tv. PAL (European) a better system, yet like metric, not backwards complaint with black and white tv's, then there is SECAM the french, it stands for as my dad like to joke "System Essentially Contradictory to the American Method!" Why the damn French couldn't have simplified things so much and made 1cm=.5inches could have saved the world billions of dollars! But nooooo, their French!!!! :) Oh well beautiful engines none the less thou!

Sorry to throw this one off topic a bit but I do think the 1-4-1 is funny!
Author:  Kevin Gillespie [ Mon May 21, 2007 10:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: French doubleheader
Sorry to throw this one off topic a bit but I do think the 1-4-1 is funny![/quote]

Well, a French visitor to the B&O Museum once told me that there are always the same number of wheels on one side as on the other.
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