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I saw the UP's articulated mallet come over and down Cajon Pass some 18 years ago. That was a machine to behold!
There is a cab-forward Big Boy at the California Train Museum in Sacramento - another articulated double boiler engine. They actually took the cabs off the rear and transferred them to the front. A Baldwin I think. Seems the snow tunnels were so long in the Sierras that the engineers would pass out from asphyxiation and smoke - so they put the cab on the front!
Also, the thing is so sophisticated for it's time that it won some prestigious engineering award.
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David
1972 911T/S MFI Survivor
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