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Originally Posted by Jim Sims
"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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One must be very careful around here
With respect to "great American accomplishment" was referring to the non-Mallet or non-compounded articulated (separate-trucks-not-hinged-in-the-middle) locomotives built by the likes of Baldwin et al. and as displayed with award at the California Railroad Museum in Cab Forward design. Pretty *****in nonetheless!!!
BTW - 3985 is the one I saw on Cajon - IIRC - it was pulling a bunch of vintage passenger cars but had to helped in the braking department by a 1950's era diesel electric.