Talk:Wood River Branch Railroad

Locomotive #5
Locomotive number 5 was not a Forney, as by definition Forney locomotives do not have a pilot truck (they are 0-4-4T, not 2-4-4T). That parenthetical comment should be removed. Beyond that, the LIRR never had any 2-4-4T locomotives. It's possible the locomotive was originally a 0-4-4T Forney, which the LIRR did have, and a pilot truck was added by the Wood River (which would make it no longer a Forney, of course). Even further, the dimensions given in the Hope Valley Advertiser (ref #75) are nonsensical for a Forney locomotive (15" x 29" cylinder), suggesting that the entire description in the newspaper is inaccurate. The LIRR Forney locomotives were Vauclain compound, which you would think would be notable enough for the newspaperman to mention (altho if the #5 did come from the LIRR, that would support the idea it was built by Baldwin, since the Vauclain design was proprietary to Baldwin). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.227.37 (talk) 19:08, 14 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Prove it. Otherwise, we go with what the sources say. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 23:18, 14 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Prove what? Any book on locomotives (including Forney's own) will tell you a Forney doesn't have a pilot truck.  The LIRR locomotive roster is on-line, you can see they had no 2-4-4T types, altho they did have 0-4-4T Forneys.  And if you don't understand why a 15" x 29" cylinder is silly, then you know little about locomotives.  When you speak of "sources say", you need to be intelligent enough to judge the credibility of the source.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.227.37 (talk) 23:14, 15 August 2023 (UTC)