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The Chesapeake and Ohio class M-1 was a fleet of three steam turbine locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1947–1948 for service on the Chessie streamliner.
Between 1945 and 1947, coal shortages caused GWR to experiment with oil fired 2800 locomotives and 12 of the 2800 class were converted. They were renumbered into the 4800 series , which necessitated re-numbering the entire 4800 class autotanks into the 1400 series, and reclassified as 1400 class.
The C-16 class switchers were the last 0-4-0 steam locomotives built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. They were assigned to the Baltimore, Maryland "Pratt Street Line" along the Inner Harbor, and to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania waterfront trackage. Initially constructed as saddle tank engines, nos. 96 and 99 were given tenders in later ...
Ranger 28 Standard model, with a PHRF racing average handicap of 180 with a high of 177 and low of 183. [1] [2] [5] Ranger 28 TM Serial numbers 1-86 Early tall mast model, with a PHRF racing average handicap of 183 with a high of 196 and low of 174. [8] Ranger 28 TM Serial numbers 87 and later
The Denver and Rio Grande Western K-28 is a class of ten 3 ft (914 mm) gauge narrow gauge 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotives built in 1923 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. They were the first new narrow gauge locomotives ordered by the railroad since 1903. [1]
Since 1971, the Silverton branch and nearby Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TSRR) were the only remnants of the Rio Grande's once extensive narrow-gauge system. [6] During the late 1970s, the D&RGW was actively trying to sell the Silverton branch and, in 1979, Charles Bradshaw, a Florida citrus grower, offered the railroad a legitimate ...
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn [8] 1891 542 0-4-0 ST: 2 ft (610 mm) Dinorwic Quarry: Cloister: Statfold Barn Railway: Donated by Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust; previously at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre and Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum [9] 1891 554 0-4-0 ST: 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm)
There was some speculation that the first series of Chesapeake and Ohio 2-6-6-6 H-8 “Allegheny” locomotives, built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1941, may have weighed as much as 778,200 lb (353,000 kg), exceeding the Big Boys, but subsequent re-weighs of early-production H-8s, under close scrutiny by the builder and the railroad, found ...