Driver Quartering ?

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Here is a conjectural proposition about the PRR left-hand lead.
For engineering reasons, the side that has the lead pounds the rail the hardest.  Therefore, a right-hand lead engine would pound the right hand rail and that side of the roadbed hardest.
The conjecture, therefore, is this:  PRR had more multiple-track territory than just about anybody else, and, like just about everybody else except the Chicago and North Western and ran right handed.  Since in those situations, the roadbed is strongest toward its center, making the left-hand side pound the hardest would be having that happen to the strongest side of the roadbed.
Since PRR was noted for dotting I’s where the results were minimally beneficial, this might have been the reason for their using left-hand lead.

EdK


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If so, I would assume that the E3's used the Pennsy system, since they were ex PRR K3's.

Jim Nichols

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Were there any N&W steam locos that used what I have been told was the 
Pennsy quartering of drivers? It is my understanding that the N&W method 
was that the right side driver led the left side driver. Where the 
Pennsy method was the left side driver led the right side driver. Is 
this correct?

Jimmy Lisle
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