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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA
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"One of the great articulated locomotives from the 20th Century. A truly great American accomplishment."
I tend to think of a "Mallet" locomotive as a Swiss or European accomplishment. Jules T. Anatole Mallet was a Swiss mechanical engineer; the first "Mallet arrangement" locomotive was used in France in 1876. The American copies came much later (1904?) and as has been mentioned, typically didn't utilize compounding (steam used at two different pressures).
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