Driver Quartering ?

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Jimmy,

You are correct, the N&W did not use the Pennsy method.  There is one 
exception:  The Class E-3 Pacifics bought secondhand in 1930 from the PRR 
had the left hand lead.

Bud Jeffries

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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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