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LPBrennan — SAL Q-3 Getting Orders
Published: 2009-11-28 02:12:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 486; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 13
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I love the Seaboard's Q-3 mikados. Actually very light mikes- a side view of one showed it as slim as a snake!- similar to USRA light 2-8-2s, but the airpumps mounted on the smokebox front gave them a hulking business-like appearance. Their light axle loading meant they were used almost everywhere in the SAL.Here is one drawn in 1981 getting orders handed up by an agent.
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I always loved locos that had the pumps mounted on the front...made them look more brutish, somehow.
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Exactly. That's what made the Q-3s so fascinating to me... essentially skinny mikados with a brutish front end. Most locomotives with pumps mounted on the smokebox were large engines which might have had clearance problems with side-mounted pumps (see all the articulated engines with pumps on the pilot), or pumps so large that they created balancing problems. Someone once told me it was the difficulty of counter-balancing the pumps which made the SAL mount them like this- but these were the only engines they had with pumps in front.
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This reminds me of Howard Fogg's many sketches for his paintings.
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