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Mantua HO scale model of 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive, lettered for Great Northern Railway. The 2-6-6-2 wheel arrangement was fairly popular among model railroaders during the period when brass models were being imported in large quantities from Japan and Korea. Among the leading examples in HO scale were the following. [71]
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. But the ...
Two classes of 2-6-6-6 locomotives were built: the sixty H-8 "Allegheny" class locomotives for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) between 1941 and 1948, [1] and the eight AG "Blue Ridge" class locomotives for the Virginian Railway in 1945. [2] (The locomotives were Series AG on the Virginian.
60163 Tornado, a new express locomotive built for the British main line, completed in 2008 Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad 425 being readied in Pennsylvania, US, for the daily tourist train in 1993 Er 774 38 0-10-0 on Steam Special Train in Moscow 11 July 2010 2-6-0 type "N3" steam locomotive built by Beyer, Peacock & Company in ...
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (officially nicknamed Maryland Thunder [2]) is a preserved compound articulated H-6 class 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" steam locomotive.It was the very last steam locomotive for domestic service built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway where it pulled coal trains until its retirement in 1956.
Most powerful steam locomotive ever static tested. PRR S1: Pennsylvania Railroad: 6100 Altoona Works: 1939 Steam 6-4-4-6: 487 tonnes (537 short tons) 76,403 pounds-force (340 kN) 7,200 horsepower (5,369 kW) Fast passenger steam locomotive; the magazine Popular Mechanics cites 1941 a speed of 133.4 mph (214.7 km/h) PRR S2: Pennsylvania Railroad ...