>>1742850I'm still not sure what the C&O was trying to do with the H-8s, since they didn't have the kind of terrain to make a flatland cruiser make sense. The marginal improvement in starting power over the pic related, combined with that massive, high-hp boiler screams something the Santa Fe might've gotten use out of in the southwest or maybe CP or CN on the plains if they were into big engines, but in the Appalachins? I don't get it.