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In France, the duplex type was made famous by the ten 2-4-6-2 compound locomotives built in 1932 for the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) to haul heavy freight trains on the 0.8% grade of the Paris–Marseille railway between Les Laumes and Dijon. The performance was so good that the company wanted to order more ...
An 0-4-4-0 Mallet of the metre gauge C. de F. de Madagascar. Baldwin Locomotive Works #44609, built 1916.. In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotive wheel arrangement, an 0-4-4-0 is a locomotive with no leading wheels, two sets of four driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
B. Barry Railway Class B1; Barry Railway Class F; Barry Railway Class G; BR ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0; BR ex-WD Austerity 2-10-0; Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-4-0ST locomotives
Vulcan produced its first diesel locomotives in the 1920s; a total of 54 diesel-electric switcher units (each weighing 25 short tons (23 t) or more) came out of Vulcan's shops between 1938 and 1954. Its largest unit was a 70-short-ton (64 t) B-B unit built for Carnegie Steel Company in 1944.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-4 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and four trailing wheels on two axles. This type was only used for tank locomotives. In the UK 0-4-4 tanks were mainly used for suburban or rural passenger duties.
The locomotive sold in the US was ordered for the newly built Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1872, and was named "Mountaineer". It was the only Double Fairlie to operate on an American narrow-gauge railway. This was a smaller locomotive with four-wheel bogies, giving it a 0-4-4-0 T configuration. [7]
0-4-0 locomotives were built as tank locomotives as well as tender locomotives. The former were more common in Europe and the latter in the United States, except in the tightest of situations such as that of a shop switcher locomotive, where overall length was a concern. The earliest 0-4-0 locomotives were tender engines and appeared as early ...
Pages in category "0-4-4-0T locomotives" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 0-4-4-0T; F.