City of St Louis (NW Modeling List)

[NW Modeling List]

--- On Tue, 2/23/10, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> From: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: RE: City of St Louis (NW Modeling List)

> To: nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org

> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:56 AM

> >The mighty UP never let its superior

> power be sullied by operating it on the N&W.  8^)

> 

> Sullied?  "Sullied" you say???  Shoot it

> probably would have been the only chance that those beasts

> would have had to run on good coal, as was mentioned in the

> Railfan & Railroad article several years ago.  Had they

> seen some use on the N&W they might have been named

> "Champ" not "Challenger."


=======================

No matter what coal was used, next to the A's, the UP locos could only be Challengers. ;-)

Mark Peele