I've never been a big train fan - other than the fab BiG BiG trains! - but old boxed sets like this Lionel are just so great to look at, never mind play with.
I love the single name of this set, Allegheny. Where's that then?
Woodsy, in this particular set, Lionel was probably referring to the Allegheny Mountain area as Baron and Scott said. But, just to confuse things a bit, there was also an 'Allegheny'-class steam engine. We give names to our steam engines, like, 'Atlantic', 'Pacific', Hudson,' 'Challenger', 'Big Boy', etc. based on wheel arrangement and 2-6-6-6 (in Whyte notation) is an articulated locomotive type. The name comes from the locomotive's first service with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway beginning in 1941, where it was used to haul loaded coal trains over the Allegheny Mountains.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Baron. Have you been?
DeleteThe Allegheny mountains run north and south through the eastern part of the US.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the West Virginia Allegheny mountains.
Woodsy, in this particular set, Lionel was probably referring to the Allegheny Mountain area as Baron and Scott said. But, just to confuse things a bit, there was also an 'Allegheny'-class steam engine. We give names to our steam engines, like, 'Atlantic', 'Pacific', Hudson,' 'Challenger', 'Big Boy', etc. based on wheel arrangement and 2-6-6-6 (in Whyte notation) is an articulated locomotive type. The name comes from the locomotive's first service with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway beginning in 1941, where it was used to haul loaded coal trains over the Allegheny Mountains.
ReplyDeleteP.S.: It appears Lionel included a 2-4-2 Columbia-type locomotive in this set.
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