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They were originally built as oil-burners and reverted to this type of fuel between 1947 and 1954, when oil prices were low. With its 1,830 millimetres (72 inches) coupled wheels, it was very fast and one of them achieved 144 kilometres per hour (89 miles per hour) during a test run. No. 1803, the last Class Pr2 in service, was withdrawn in May ...
The Board of Directors of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, armed with a charter, now had the task of surveying and building the line. They brought in James Fowle Baldwin, son of Col. Loammi Baldwin, who had engineered the Middlesex Canal, to do the surveying, and charged him with finding a gently sloped path from Lowell to Boston, with few grade crossings and well away from town centers.
The Boston and Worcester Railroad was chartered June 23, 1831 and construction began in August 1832. The line opened in sections: to West Newton on April 16, 1834; to Wellesley on July 3; to Ashland on September 20; to Westborough in November 1834; and the full length to Worcester on July 4, 1835. [ 3 ]
Type Road number Build year Total produced AAR wheel arrangement Prime mover Power output Image EMC 1800 hp B-B: ATSF 1: 1935 1 B-B+B-B: Dual Winton 12-201-A: 1,800 hp (1,342 kW)
The ALCO S-2 and S-4 are 1,000-horsepower (746 kW) diesel electric switcher locomotives produced by ALCO and Canadian licensee Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW). [1]Powered by turbocharged, 6-cylinder ALCO 539 diesel engines, the two locomotives differed mainly in their trucks: the S-2 had ALCO "Blunt" trucks; the S-4, AAR type A switcher trucks.
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In 1901, Locomobile offered seven body styles at prices between $600 (equivalent to $21,974 in 2023) and $1,400 (equivalent to $51,274 in 2023). Most Locomobiles had simple twin-cylinder engines (3x4 in, 76.2x102 mm; 57 in 3, 927 cm 3) and a wire-wrapped 300-psi boiler, and burned the liquid fuel naphtha to create steam.