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Canadian National 89 is a 2-6-0 "Mogul" type steam locomotive originally built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in February 1910 for the Canadian National Railway. It is now owned and operated by the Strasburg Rail Road in Strasburg, Pennsylvania , where it resides today for use on excursion trains.
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway 1630 is a preserved class "Ye" 2-10-0 type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. [1] Today, Frisco No. 1630 is currently one of two operating Decapods in service in America, the other being former Great Western No. 90 at the Strasburg Rail Road outside of Strasburg, Pennsylvania. [2]
Canadian Pacific 2839, nicknamed Beer Can, is a class H1c 4-6-4 Royal Hudson built by the Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1937 and was retired in 1959. It was restored to operating condition in 1979 by the Southern Railway for their Steam Excursion Program and was sold to the Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad before it was retired again in 1985.
Canadian National 7312. Canadian National 7312 is an 0-6-0 "Switcher" type steam locomotive originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in August 1908 for the Canadian National Railway. It is owned and currently undergoing rebuild by the Strasburg Rail Road outside of Strasburg, Pennsylvania. [ 1][ 2]
CN U-1-a and U-1-b. Water cap. Factor of adh. [ 2][ 3] The Canadian National U-1-a U-1-b class locomotives were three subclasses of 37 4-8-2 Mountain-type steam locomotives built for the Canadian National Railways between 1923 and 1924 . They were retired between 1951 and 1962 .
The wheel arrangement of small diesel and petrol locomotives can be classified using the same notation as steam locomotives, e.g. 0-4-0, 0-6-0, 0-8-0. Where the axles are coupled by chains or shafts (rather than side rods) or are individually driven, the terms 4w (4- wheeled ), 6w (6-wheeled) or 8w (8-wheeled) are generally used.
Numbers. 20. Nicknames. Decapod. Disposition. Rebuilt in 1906 as 0-8-0 and later scrapped. The GER Class A55 or Decapod was an experimental steam locomotive with an 0-10-0T wheel arrangement designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. It was the first ten-coupled steam locomotive in Great Britain .
WC 715 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI. The EMD GP30 is a 2,250 hp (1,680 kW) four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between July 1961 and November 1963. [ 2] A total of 948 units were built for railroads in the United States and Canada (2 only), including 40 ...