Driver Quartering ?

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Thu Mar 20 11:44:17 EDT 2014


Jimmy,

You are correct, the N&W did not use the Pennsy method. There is one
exception: The Class E-3 Pacifics bought secondhand in 1930 from the PRR
had the left hand lead.

Bud Jeffries

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> Were there any N&W steam locos that used what I have been told was the

> Pennsy quartering of drivers? It is my understanding that the N&W method

> was that the right side driver led the left side driver. Where the Pennsy

> method was the left side driver led the right side driver. Is this

> correct?

>

> Jimmy Lisle

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