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On ‘Centipedes’ & ‘Sharknoses’
IT WAS good to see the interesting and informative article about these locomotives and I certainly enjoyed the read, but it needs a few corrections. The road switcher equivalent of the 1600hp RF16 was the AS16 – there were no AS12s, although there was a 1200hp RS12 ‘light road switcher’.
The ‘pair of Pennsylvania RF16s’ pictured on the empty stock working are actually DR-6-4-2000s, 2000hp A1A-A1As with 2x606SC engines in a longer Sharknose body (the booster is a DR-6-4-2000B) – Pennsy’s 27 (including nine Bs) were the only passenger ‘Sharks’ and weren't a great success – there were other DR-6-4-2000 variants with
