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The standard gauge locomotive was designed as an articulated 2-6-6-2+2-6-6-2 for the North American railroads and would have been built in conjunction with the American Locomotive Company (ALCo). The starting tractive force of 200,000 pounds-force (890 kN) of the 460-ton locomotive would probably have been at the limit of the couplers in use at ...
2-6-6-6. The 2-6-6-6 (in Whyte notation) is an articulated locomotive type with two leading wheels, two sets of six driving wheels and six trailing wheels. Only two classes of the 2-6-6-6 type were built. One was the "Allegheny" class, built by the Lima Locomotive Works. The name comes from the locomotive's first service with the Chesapeake and ...
Sierra Railway #3 on the P&AC. No. 3 is a 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler steam locomotive built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey. Construction of the locomotive was completed on March 26, 1891, and was given Rogers construction number 4493. It has 17 in × 24 in (43 cm × 61 cm) cylinders, 56-inch (140 cm) driving wheels ...
Canadian National 5288 is a J-7-b class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built in June 1919 by the Montreal Locomotive Works, originally for the Canadian Government Railways (CGR) as No. 516 and later No. 5288 on the Canadian National Railway (CN). It was on display at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Fury. Disposition. Rebuilt in 1935 as Rebuilt Royal Scot class no. 6170 British Legion. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) No. 6399 Fury was an unsuccessful British experimental express passenger locomotive. The intention was to save fuel by using high-pressure steam, which is thermodynamically more efficient than low-pressure steam.
Withdrawn. 1942 (1), 1949–1955. Disposition. All original C53s scrapped, one Toby the Tram Engine replica built at East Anglian Railway Museum. Most specifications from [ 1] The GER Class C53 was a class of twelve 0-6-0 T steam tram locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern ...
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class V1 and Class V3 were two classes of related 2-6-2 T steam locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley. [ 1] A total of 82 V1s were built with 71 being rebuilt into the higher pressure V3s with an additional ten being built as V3s from the final batch of V1s. The V3 was a development of the V1 with ...
An earlier view of 44458, this time passing Water Orton. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler Class 4F is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed for medium freight work. They represent the ultimate development of Midland Railway 's six coupled tender engines. Many trainspotters knew them as "Duck Sixes", a nickname derived ...