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Originally Posted by Tony
NO CONTEST!! The Big Boy was the biggest living, breathing steam engine ever built. They were built for long distance coal trains. The Deltics were very noisy, smelly tin cans on wheels. Granted, they were fast when they worked, but how many times did they finish a long run on one engine?
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Going by the remark above saying that a deltic was a tin can on wheels
I think it was a bit more than that with having
a maximum tractive effort of -222kn {50000ibf}
weight of 100t
and a engine of two napier-deltic D18-25 of 1230kw {1650 h.p} each at 1500 r.p.m and main generators two english electric 829/1A its still one of
the best diesel locos the world has seen. and it still has a big amount of fans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xSbmBhFnQk