RE: #21 v #22

Posted by South Park on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/21-v-22-tp7249p7301.html

  The way the C&S NG lines kept some of the less streamlined
characteristics of earlier locomotive design - oversized overhanging
headlights, the high bulk of the Ridgway spark catcher, etc. kept
their most of their locomotives exceptionally good looking to the
end, even if they lost some of the gingerbread like the ringed domes.

  Personally, a long, black tube of a locomotive is about as good
looking as a sausage on wheels.  I like the gee-gaw of the high
Victorian age.  It was a show of pride and accomplishment, be
that stained glass windows in one's home, or fancy hand painted
numbers and lettering on the motive power.  I would rank the 2-8-0's
in mid-80's trim about the finest looking, most perfectly proportioned
locomotives to ever ply the rails anywhere.