Lumpers and splitters, American Civil War, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
(2011-07-09
)
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ISBN-13:
978-3-8433-1275-2
ISBN-10:
3843312753
EAN:
9783843312752
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Class refers to a group of locomotives built to a common design for a single railroad. Often members of a particular class had detail variations between individual examples, and these could lead to subclasses. Sometimes technical alterations move a locomotive from one class to another. Different railways had different systems, and sometimes one railway used different systems at different times and for different purposes, or applied those classifications inconsistently. Sometimes therefore it is not clear where one class begins and another ends. The result is a classic example of the Lumper splitter problem.