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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 2716 is a preserved class "K-4" 2-8-4 "Kanawha" (Berkshire) type steam locomotive built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O).
The LSWR X6 class was a class of express passenger 4-4-0 steam locomotives designed for the London and South Western Railway by William Adams.Ten were constructed at Nine Elms Locomotive Works between 1895 and 1896.
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Swiss classification: 2/5+2/5 up to the early 1920s, later 4/10 Only one was produced, the Pennsylvania Railroad 's sole class S1 of 1939. It was a duplex locomotive , the longest and heaviest rigid frame reciprocating steam locomotive ever built and is referred to as the Pennsylvania Type .
Between 1947 and 1949, 33 Class C61 locomotives were rebuilt from former Class D51 2-8-2 Mikado freight locomotives. The Class C61 was the first Japanese locomotive with the 4-6-4 Hudson wheel arrangement. [25] In 1948 and 1949, 49 Class C62 locomotives were built with new 4-6-4 frames and using the boilers of Class D52 2-8-2 Mikado locomotives ...
The introduction of the 4-6-2 design in 1901 has been described as "a veritable milestone in locomotive progress". [3] On many railways worldwide, Pacific steam locomotives provided the motive power for express passenger trains throughout much of the early to mid-20th century, before either being superseded by larger types in the late 1940s and 1950s, or replaced by electric or diesel-electric ...
Riddles had frequently argued the case for the inclusion of a Standard Class 8 Pacific in the standard range of locomotives being introduced by British Railways. However, those proposals were rejected by the Railway Executive on the grounds that attempting to develop a new form of steam motive power was unnecessary because there were enough Standard Class 7 Britannia locomotives already ...
A 4-4-6-4, in the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, is one that has four leading wheels followed by four coupled driving wheels, a second set of six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Q2 class were the only locomotives ever to use this arrangement.