To have had or had have not? LOL

That's why God invented the comma. What he meant was that the locomotives had the remote throttle at one time, or still have it installed.

Does anyone have pictures or a schematic that show these remote throttle installations, how they differ in detail from 'standard' Alco practice, and give any special repair or maintenance procedures or advice? This is a preservation topic in itself; we're getting to the point that some of these locomotives will have run longer as remotes than they did with engineers...

I'm still trying to think of the Hemingway joke that goes with the line you mentioned, that we could use to follow the one that ends "I'm a Harvard grad driving a cab for 40 years, and I've had many requests like that, but you're the first one who has known how to ask about it using the pluperfect subjunctive".

Before you go too deeply into 'He said she said' about the throttle, Ozark is advertising it with an electric throttle.

GME

The throttle on this ALCO is air, the handle in the cab controls the air pressure to a air cylinder on the side of the governor, the more air pressure in cylinder the further open the governor goes.
I don't think we had any drawings for it, I believe it was added at some point in its life.
This ALCO also had a EMD oil filter installed in the front end behind the radiators and was upgraded to 26L brake stand. The air throttle may have added then.
It was used at a coal tipple until the late 90s, it then went into private ownership and we used it every week end on the Fayette Central RR for about 7 years till we were shut down 2 or 3 years ago.

Tim