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Tuesday, 16 September 2014

USATC S160 near the end of overhaul

The USATC S 160 was overhauled at Howarth
workshops and on a shed visit I captured it near
the end of a long and expensive overhaul
 
 
The US engines were built on 'bar' frames unlike
British engines which were plate framed. There is
of course merit in both concepts and it is good we
have an example of American engineering

 
Very powerful engines they were based I believe
on a design by Baldwin

 
Like the Dub Dee of Riddles they were meant to
replace bombed and damaged continental engines
after D Day as the armies rolled forwards through
Europe and the defeat of Hitler's Nazi Germany.
 
In this commemorative year of the outbreak of
WW1 let us remember the dead of all the warring
nations, the many millions of civilian's as well as
the men and women in uniform, all sides and
all people are victims of war brought about by
corrupt theologies and political systems
 

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