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For passenger loco's, railroads prefered deeper-pitched whistles, usually a long-bell 6-chime steptop, or long-bell "steamboat" 3-chime. For freight, short-bell 5-chime steptops were popular. The great majority of American locomotive whistles were 6-1/2" in diameter, large and heavy, weighing up to 90lbs!!
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (officially nicknamed Maryland Thunder [2]) is a compound articulated H-6 class 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" steam locomotive.It was the very last steam locomotive for domestic service built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway where it pulled coal trains until its retirement in 1956.
The locomotives were equipped with a Hancock long-bell 3-chime whistle. [18] [19] The class Js were among the N&W's most reliable steam locomotives; they ran evenly on its mountainous and relatively short route at an average speed of 40 mph (64 km/h), producing 5,100 hp (3,800 kW) at the tender drawbar.
At the end of 1970, the B&O operated of 4,535 miles of mainline track, not including the Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) or the Reading Railroad and its subsidiaries. [3] The B&O’s long-distance passenger trains were discontinued in 1971 when the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) took over intercity passenger service ...
William Mason is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive currently on display at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.It was built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, carrying that railroad's number 25.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy O-5 was a class of 36 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1930 and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) between 1936 and 1940 and operated by the CB&Q until the late 1950s.
Sierra No. 3, often called the "Movie Star locomotive", is a 19th-century 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type steam locomotive owned by the State of California and preserved and operated by the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, California.
On March 13, 1878, the road's creditors formally signed an agreement transferring their bonds and control of the railroad to J.J. Hill's investment group. [3] On September 18, 1889, Hill changed the name of the Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railway (a railroad which existed primarily on paper) to the Great Northern Railway.