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EMD DDA40X. The EMD DDA40X is a 6,600 hp (4,943 kW) D-D locomotive, built by EMD from 1969 to 1971 exclusively for the Union Pacific Railroad. [ 1] It is the most powerful diesel-electric locomotive model ever built on a single frame, having two 16-645E3A diesel prime movers. [ 2] Union Pacific has marked DD40X on the cab exteriors, while EMD ...
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 ...
The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built. It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal.
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 ...
The Chemin de fer des Côtes-du-Nord (abbr. CdN, lit. Railway of the Côtes-du-Nord), the Côtes-d'Armor today, was a 1,000 mm ( 3 ft 3⁄8 in ), metre gauge, railway in Côtes-du-Nord, France, although there were a few kilometres of line in Finistère and Ille-et-Vilaine. The first lines opened in 1905 and final closure was in 1956.
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Bo'Bo'Bo'. 120 tonnes (132 short tons ) 89,475 pounds-force (398 kN ) 10,460 horsepower (7,800 kW) 1-hour rating; 9,705 horsepower (7,237 kW) continuous. At the time of construction (1972) one of the world's most powerful locomotives. Currently in operation as of May 2022. [update] with the revised classification of Re 620.
August 13, 2024 at 7:11 AM. Holly Newton was killed in Hexham in January 2023 [PA Media] A teenager accused of murdering a 15-year-old girl said he "probably" stabbed her because he was "angry ...