Originally Posted by gunrunnerjohn:
Originally Posted by rheil:
Not any different than putting an inexperienced driver behind the wheel of a AA fuel dragster or a 200 MPH Nascar vehicle. The vehicles won't perform as they should.
Really? You're equating an experienced engineer of other PRR steam engines with inexperienced drivers? The T1 may have had operational differences, but I doubt it was like getting out of a VW and trying to fly a 747! I think we're branching into fantasy land here.
Well, you would be wrong with that analogy. You don't think putting an Engineer familiar with K4s locomotives isn't that same as going from a VW to a Pro-Stock race car? Comparing a VW to ANY sort of aircraft is obviously ridiculous, since VWs do NOT fly! But marginal Engineers on K4s locomotives, suddenly thrust into the right hand seat of a T1 with out any appropriate training, was just WRONG! That is exactly what the PRR did, along with the Q2 locomotives as well.
