For many granger railroads there was but one choice among the many wheel arrangements available for modern steam power. ….. So in steam what else but the 4-8-4?
‘This peevish attention to cleanliness, Jack, this busy preoccupation with dirt,’ said Stephen, shaking his head at the fire, ‘has something of the Brahminical superstition about it. It is not very far removed from nastiness, Jack – from cacothymia.’
The smoochsome twosome were caught playing tonsil tennis as they drove into an underpass in Foshan, China, hoping to avoid attention.
In other words, they are cheap, and if fear of spending small amounts of money is a form of chrematophobia, then phobias abound in the world.
