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Don't forget the slide rule, although some of us would like to!

Posted by Henry Brown on 2025-02-13 13:17:16

In my first year of Engineering they taught me how to use the slide rule, thank God Texas Instruments came out with the calculator.

Posted by Bruce Macdonald on 2025-02-13 14:20:32

That massive casting of the trailing truck frame is an industrial wonder in itself. Altoona and many other railroad shops of the steam age that actually manufactured their own locomotives were manufacturing powerhouses, the size and scope of which have no equivalents today.

Posted by Ron DeFilippo on 2025-02-14 12:53:40

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