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The China Railways SL4 (勝利4, Shènglì, "victory") class steam locomotive was a class of 4-6-2 passenger steam locomotives operated by the China Railway.They were originally built for South Manchuria Railway (Mantetsu), where they were designated Pashishi (パシニ) class.
These 4-4-0 locomotives weighing 20 to 25 tons were augmented by locomotives built elsewhere when the road was completed to Montreal. [ 2 ] The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway was chartered to build the part of the line in Quebec , and on August 4, 1851, agreed to meet the Atlantic and St. Lawrence at Island Pond.
The Pennsylvania Railroad kept producing 0-4-0 classes long after all other major railroads had abandoned development of the type, building their final A5s class into the 1920s. The A5s was a monster among 0-4-0s, larger than many 0-6-0 designs, with modern features found on few others of its type, such as superheating, power reverse, and ...
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Trieste (DSV-0) 1958 Trieste II (DSV-1) 1969 The Trieste was the first submarine which reached the Challenger Deep by Swiss Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960. Alvin class: 4 Alvin (DSV-2) 5 June 1964 Nemo (DSV-5) 1970 NR-1: 1 10 June 1967 27 October 1969
First flown in 1931, the Loening XSL was a lightweight flying-boat designed to be folded up and stored in an 8-foot-diameter watertight tube on the deck of a submarine. [2]
Switzerland persisted with the 0-4-4-0T and 0-4-4-0 types and in the 1890s J.A. Maffei built classes of each for the standard gauge Swiss Central Railway. [12] The Mallet type developed and outgrew the original wheel arrangement, particularly in the USA, also gaining tenders and often being simple expansion engines rather than compounds. [13]
Its primary purpose was to connect vacationers from New York City to New Hampshire's White Mountains including the Mount Washington Hotel and Mount Washington Cog Railway. [1] Initially named the Night White Mountains Express, [2] it was the most exclusive of seasonal trains serving the White Mountains. It was briefly an all-Pullman service ...