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[5] [7]: 18 Early American locomotives had bar frames, made from steel bar; in the 20th century they usually had cast steel frames or, in the final decades of steam locomotive design, a cast steel locomotive bed – a one-piece steel casting for the entire locomotive frame, cylinders, valve chests, steam pipes, and smokebox saddle, all as a ...
Components of a locomotive, e.g. 'cylinder' or 'piston rod', use 'Locomotive parts' Individual locomotive classes use the relevant country, railway company or wheel arrangement category. Generic types of steam locomotive e.g. 'Mallet' or 'Crampton', use 'Steam locomotive types'
Watering a steam locomotive South African Class 25 condensing locomotive. Steam locomotives consume vast quantities of water because they operate on an open cycle, expelling their steam immediately after a single use rather than recycling it in a closed loop as stationary and marine steam engines do. Water was a constant logistical problem, and ...
If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually referred to as a multiple unit, motor coach, railcar or power car; the use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains, but rare for freight [citation needed] (see CargoSprinter). Following is a locomotive classes or models, organized by company.
A class of locomotives is a group of locomotives built to a common design, typically for a single railroad or railway. Classes can vary between country, manufacturer, and company . [ 1 ] For example, the United States generally used the Whyte notation for steam locomotive classification, [ 2 ] but the Baldwin Locomotive Works had their own ...
The E Class were displaced from the main passenger trains by the 4-4-4T H Class in 1920, moving to lesser jobs such as trains on the Chesham branch, goods trains and engineering duties. Following the Second World War , one E Class locomotive was regularly stationed at Rickmansworth station to cover a failure of LNER locomotives working ...
The SR V class, more commonly known as the Schools class, is a class of steam locomotive designed by Richard Maunsell for the Southern Railway.The class was a cut down version of his Lord Nelson class but also incorporated components from Urie and Maunsell's LSWR/SR King Arthur class.
The South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) P class is a class of 0-6-0 T steam locomotive designed by Harry Wainwright. They were inspired by, [ 1 ] and loosely based on, the more successful LB&SCR A1 class "Terriers" and eight were built in 1909 and 1910.