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Trainz is a series of 3D train simulator video games.The Australian studio Auran (since 2007 N3V Games) released the first game in 2001.. The simulators consist of route and session editors called Surveyor, and a Driver module that loads a route and lets the player operate and watch the trains run in either "DCC" mode, which simulates a bare-bones Digital Command Control (DCC) system for the ...
While working at JI&S, the locomotive's career is relatively unknown, but the locomotive's career is known to have lasted unusually late for a steam locomotive in revenue service, before being retired from revenue service in the 1950s. [2] In 1979, the locomotive was purchased by Jerry Jacobson who saved the locomotive from scrap. [2]
In 1948, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) purchased seven 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotives from the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady New York and designated as the class A-2a and assigned road numbers 9400 through 9406. [2] [3] The tenders were built by Lima and weighed in 22 tonnes (22,000,000 g; 22,000 kg ...
Numbers 5011 to 5035, when built, were the largest and fastest class of "Texas"-type locomotives ever built and equipped with Timken roller bearings on every axle.. The engines had a maximum output of 5,600 horsepower (4,200 kW) measured at the rear of the tender, at a top speed of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).
Another steam locomotive that is preserved is a steam dummy, built for Sydney Tramways, in 1891, and preserved in operational condition, at Auckland's Museum of Transport & Technology. A six-ton, 60-cm gauge 4-4-0 built for the Tacubaya Railroad in 1897 was the smallest ever built by Baldwin for commercial use.
It was one of twenty-five similar locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903 for the Southern to haul freight. Between April 3–6, and August 23 - 24th, 1937, the locomotive was leased to the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway (A&Y), a subsidiary company of Southern Railroad. In June 1946, the A&Y requested #542 once more, this time in ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad K4 was a class of 425 4-6-2 steam locomotives built between 1914 and 1928 for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), where they served as the primary mainline passenger steam locomotives on the entire PRR system until late 1957. Attempts were made to replace the K4s, including the K5 and the T1 duplex locomotive.
The locomotive was the eighth of a batch of ten locomotives forming part of the GWR 3700 (or 'City') Class, and was delivered from Swindon Works in May 1903.All ten were named after cities on the GWR system; this batch was originally numbered 3433–42, City of Truro being 3440; like most GWR 4-4-0s, they were renumbered in December 1912, this batch becoming 3710–19 of which City of Truro ...