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Old Texas Type 2-10-4 Locomotive

My site completely crashed on my other host and not only did it take them over 4 days to fix my database the site still wouldn’t work so I moved it over to a new host. So far, so good. The worst part was that all my links did not transfer out in the WordPress backup xml file so I had to go back in and extract them from the restored data base and input them one at a time. Not fun at all! The new site address is baregrass.com instead of baregrass.net as before. Actually baregrass.com was my old original site name way back and I let it go some years ago after tiring of messing with a web site. I was finally able to get it back a few months ago without paying for it as it went back into the public domain.

A little bit of New Mexico history for all concerned in the above graphic. These locomotives were once the queens of the road. It was built in 1944, has 74 inch drivers, weighs over 500,000 pounds, had a tractive effort of over 95,000 pounds, had a boiler pressure of around 300 pounds and was built for high speed service. How fast? I don’t know but 90 miles an hour would probably not be out of the question. A true American beauty. By the way, there is an interesting article on the relationship between boogie-woogie music and the tempo of steam engines at boogiewoogie.com and, if you want to see more photos of steam locomotives click on the photos tab on the main menu above.