![]() ![]() Army 2-8-0 locos-all 2,120 of them-were part of the largest class (S160) of steamers ever constructed in the 48 States. ![]() What I did not know then was that these U.S. These ugly ducklings looked nothing like NYC’s handsome Hudson 4-6-4s or PRR’s pretty Pacific 4-6-2s. Worse yet, they employed a tiny “black-out” headlight or no headlight at all. Each had a single 11-inch air compressor mounted on one side of the loco’s front that imparted a lopsided, unsymmetrical appearance. Army’s 2-8-0 Consolidation-type steam locomotives that had been constructed during World War II. ![]() As a naive teen-ager I was not enthralled with the flat sandbox, European-style buffers and somewhat awkward appearance of the U.S.
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