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D&LN logo old DT&I Railroad map. In 1901, the merger of the Detroit and Lima Northern Railway and the Ohio Southern Railway formed the Detroit Southern Railroad. [1] This company was purchased at foreclosure on May 1, 1905, by Harry B. Hollins & Company of New York, which reincorporated it in the state of Michigan under the name of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway.
The EM-1 produced 115,000 pounds-force (510 kN) of tractive effort on 64-inch (1.6 m) drivers with 235 pounds per square inch (1.62 MPa) steam pressure and four 24-by-32-inch (0.61 by 0.81 m) cylinders. The tender carried 22,000 US gallons (83 m 3) of water and 25 tons of coal. The engine weighed 627,000 pounds (284 t) while the tender weighed ...
These were the last new-built 1’D2’t-h2 (2-8-4T) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge locomotives in the world. Their maximum 17.5 ton axle load restricted them to mainline service. Their maximum 17.5 ton axle load restricted them to mainline service.
While the wheel arrangement and type name Atlantic would come to fame in the fast passenger service competition between railroads in the United States by mid-1895, [1] the tank locomotive version of the 4-4-2 Atlantic type first made its appearance in the United Kingdom in 1880, when William Adams designed the 1 Class 4-4-2 T of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR).
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Ironton is the name of several places in the United ...
The Ironton–Russell Bridge can refer to either one of two bridges that carry/carried traffic along the Ohio River between Ironton, Ohio and Russell, Kentucky in the United States. The original blue cantilever Ironton–Russell Bridge, opened in 1922 and closed in 2016, carried two lanes of traffic and a narrow sidewalk.
Eight 4-2-4 well- and back-tank locomotives which entered service on the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1853 appear to have been the first with this wheel arrangement. The engine was designed by James Pearson , the railway company's engineer, and featured single large flangeless driving wheels between two supporting four-wheeled bogies .
Ironton is a city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Ohio, United States. [4] The population was 10,571 at the 2020 census.Located in southernmost Ohio along the Ohio River, it is 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Huntington, West Virginia, within the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area.