History of the Mallet from 1962 mag

[Fred_M]

A friend found an old 12/1962 Popular Science which had an interesting article on Mallets in it. I scanned it to pdf and posted it on my site. It's a 1.3 MB pdf. http://www.trainweb.org/zmtshortline/mallet history.pdf
enjoy... FRED

 

[RailRon]

Thank you, Fred, for posting this article!

It brought back memories from childhood, when my grandpa (he was a station master and I spent every free minute on 'his' station) showed me a big book with all these giant American steam engines. I remember the pictures of the AT&SF loco with the harmonica hinge in the boiler, and also the mighty ERIE triplexes. Oh how I wished we had such locomotives here in Switzerland!

Unfortunately my grandma gave the book away when grandpa died. She didn't care about my protests - and so it was gone for good... And later I never found out the title or the author of the book.

Ron

 

[Clerk]

Thanks from me also.. Back in the late 50's the big SP cab forwards came out of Alturas Ca. to a siding called Perez where I work. They waited in the siding for a long train and then hooked up behind the caboose to help the train over a hill. I even managed to hook a ride in one.

 

[spitfire]

And now, here's a history of the Mullet

Val

 

[Ricardo Correia]

In Portugal there were Mallets too... I was glad to know a little more about the story of this locomotives... Thanks

 

[Fred_M]

Originally posted by spitfire
And now, here's a history of the Mullet

Val

That site is incomplete! There isn't even a mention of the most famous Mullet wearer, Joe Dirt(e). FRED

 

[spitfire]

Originally posted by dash10
That site is incomplete! There isn't even a mention of the most famous Mullet wearer, Joe Dirt(e). FRED

Tell it to the judge!

Val

 

[Fred_M]

I'm running out of web space so this will link be pulled down april 5, 2004 at 5pm CDST. FRED