Talk:2-8-8-8-4

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Tractive Force ?

This must have been among the most powerful locomotives built - does anyone have any specs? How did it compare to challengers and big boys or other similar locomotives? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.31.184.166 (talk) 20:53, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the final paragraph of 2-8-8-8-2#Overview_of_Triplex_engineering and the first paragraph of Tractive_effort#Values_and_comparisons_for_steam_locomotives for the best information on this topic that Wikipedia currently has. It cites various figures and does not make clear whether there was much difference between Baldwin's 2 Triplex models (2-8-8-8-2 and 2-8-8-8-4). Hopefully eventually more definitive info will find its way here from secondary sources. — ¾-10 17:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/articulated/virginianxa.shtml
- In 2-8-8-8-4 on 2011-05-25 06:55:17, 404 Not Found
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--JeffGBot (talk) 04:43, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]