Talk:Wabash class P1

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35,840 pounds?[edit]

The fuel capacity was listed as 35,840 pounds. But that over-precise number stretches my credulity to the limit. The main problem is that this comes out to an even 16 long tons. A coincidence? Perhaps. But not really likely. The problems is:

The American railroad people weren't likely to be measuring this fuel capacity in long tons. So is the problem
1. It was actually 16 short tons, but misidentified as long tons and misconverted to pounds on that basis?
2. Or was some other figure in pounds or short tons converted into long tons in some British publication which some Wikipedia editor used as a source? Note that 36,000 pounds or 18 short tons is 16.07... long tons which rounds to 16 long tons.

Gene Nygaard (talk) 22:27, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well the source of the tender capacity (and the rest of the info for that edit) was Hollingsworth, and he does actually quote it as 35,840 lb (16.3 t). — Iain Bell (talk) 21:43, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I have found an alternative source (Westcott, Linn H. [ed.] (1960). Model Railroader Cyclopedia — Volume 1: Steam Locomotives. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Company. pp. pp.214–215. ISBN 0 89024 001 9. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); |pages= has extra text (help)) that includes a line drawing and photographs. One photograph clearly shows the tender as marked “16 TONS”. As these will be short tons, I have updated the article accordingly. Iain Bell (talk) 15:08, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]