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McDude:

Thanks for the photo and your input.

Resident 2B:

I also pulled out one of my special editions of the Weirs Times yesterday. I forgot that I had a couple of these, for they are over 10 years old. I got most of my information from Blackstone's Farewell to thee Old MT. WASHINGTON. You just had too many zeros in your horsepower rating. You would think that they would have had bigger engines, but possibly that old iron hull couldn't take the stress. Back in the 1950's I think I recall that the Mount might have been faster, let's say 20 MPH top speed. Adding a 25' extension, more equipment, and more superstructure, increased the weight of the Mount quite a bit, thus slowing it's top end speed down to around 15 MPH. Only the operators of the Mount could substantiate this theory.