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Reversing lever. This is the most common form of reverser. It is also known as a Johnson bar in the United States. It consists of a long lever mounted parallel to the direction of travel, on the driver’s side of the cab. It has a handle and sprung trigger at the top and is pivoted at the bottom to pass between two notched sector plates.
Retired. 1948-1960. Disposition. One preserved, remainder scrapped. Pennsylvania Railroad Class L1s were 2-8-2 "Mikado"-type steam locomotives that were used on the Pennsylvania Railroad during the early twentieth century. These 574 locomotives were manufactured between 1914 and 1919 by the railroad's own Juniata Shops (344 examples) as well as ...
Bowser Manufacturing. Bowser Manufacturing is a United States manufacturer of model railroad equipment, located in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1946 by Bill Bowser in Redlands, California, he used his skill as a machinist to design and produce one of the first lines of accurately scaled steam locomotive kits in HO scale.
The year 2007 saw a major shift in On2 scale, especially Maine On2 modeling, with the release of the Bachmann forney. Before then, ready-to-run locomotives were only available in brass, and rolling stock kits were few. Since 2007, there has been an upswing in kits, structures, detail parts, and rolling stock, which will likely continue.
Operational. GWR No. 1340 is an 0-4-0 ST steam locomotive, built in 1897 (Works No. 1386) by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol, England. Its first owners were Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock. [1] In 1903 it was purchased by the Alexandra Docks Railway. This was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923.
GE U30C. The GE U30C is a six-axle locomotive built by General Electric from 1966 to 1976. With 600 units sold, the U30C proved to be a viable alternative for customers who were unable to purchase SD40s from Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) due to production backlog. Throughout its ten-year production span, the U30C was known for reliability issues ...
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class A2/3 was a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives. They were newly constructed locomotives, fulfilling the requirement identified by Edward Thompson for a standard express passenger locomotive of the 4-6-2 arrangement with 6 ft 2 in (1.880 m) driving wheels. Fifteen engines were constructed according ...
Large engine (SD90MAC-H and SD90MAC-H2): 200,000 lbf (890 kN) starting, 165,000 lbf (730 kN) continuous. The EMD SD90MAC is a model of 6,000 hp (4,470 kW) [1] C-C diesel-electric locomotive produced by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD). It is, with the SD80MAC, one of the largest single-engined locomotives produced by EMD and among ...