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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] A footnote although I am in no hurry to reach 4,000 posts before passengers board the Wisconsin Talgo - The helper locomotive in the painting you linked Mr. Norman is undoubtedly a 2-10-2 from the 5000 number series which Southern used in freight and helper service in the Southern Appalachians. A now departed family friend named Dale Roberts grew up by the tracks in East Asheville. Dale was a self-educated authority on Southern steam (and possibly the finest oboist that North Carolina ever produced) who used to say that Southern's big fifties looked like circus elephants down on their knees as they neared the summit of Old Fort Mountain. The more acclaimed reporter Don Phillips, on a railfan junket to capture steam's parting hours in China maybe a decade ago even likened the sound and appearance of the Chinese 2-10-2's to the Southern 'fifties' in the Carolina mountains fifty years earlier. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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