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Most HATED Locomotives by Their Own Crews Ever

Most HATED Locomotives by Their Own Crews Ever Subscribe: ‪@legendarylocomotives‬ Throughout railroad history, some locomotives looked impressive on paper but made life miserable for the men who actually ran them. These are the machines that crews dreaded, complained about in crew rooms, and cursed in railyard bars. The Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 Duplex terrified engineers with violent wheel slip at 80 mph. When those drivers started slipping at speed, you had seconds to cut power before the locomotive shook itself apart. Trains Magazine admitted the average engineer simply did not acquire the finesse to operate these machines. All 52 were scrapped, none preserved. Camelback locomotives put the engineer directly above the spinning driving rods. B&O crews called them "Snappers" because a broken side rod meant flying metal straight into the cab. The B&O Railroad Museum documented cases where engineers died while oblivious firemen at the rear kept stoking the fire. The ICC banned them entirely by 1927. British War Department Austerity 2-8-0s earned the nickname "Bed Irons" for their terrible clanking ride. Built cheap for wartime with a two-year expected lifespan, their rough riding qualities made them deeply unpopular with crews stuck running them for two more decades. Southern Pacific crews on the Sierra route faced suffocation in 39 tunnels and 40 miles of snow sheds. Exhaust filled enclosed spaces and wrapped back into the cab. Test crews nearly died, leading to desperate measures like rigged respirators. One 1941 tunnel stall killed the entire crew. The C&O H-8 Allegheny represented corporate betrayal. Lima claimed certain weight specs that determined crew pay, but maintenance crews discovered the locomotives weighed thousands of pounds more. Crews saw this as an attack on their livelihood and the railroad sued Lima for $3 million. These locomotives failed the only test that truly mattered: whether the crews trusted them.