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GWR 6800 Class No. 6880 Betton Grange is a steam locomotive built between 1998 and 2024 as a "new-build" project, originally based on the Llangollen Railway in Denbighshire, Wales, then subsequently at Tyseley Locomotive Works. Described on the project's website as "building the 81st Grange", the project started in 1998, and the locomotive was ...
Most powerful steam locomotive ever static tested. PRR S1: Pennsylvania Railroad: 6100 Altoona Works: 1939 Steam 6-4-4-6: 487 tonnes (537 short tons) 76,403 pounds-force (340 kN) 7,200 horsepower (5,369 kW) Fast passenger steam locomotive; the magazine Popular Mechanics cites 1941 a speed of 133.4 mph (214.7 km/h) PRR S2: Pennsylvania Railroad ...
Steam locomotive Dame Ann in "Pumpkin Patch Express" livery Dame Ann Exmoor Steam Railway builder's plate showing year of completion and works number. Dame Ann is an 11,700-pound [1] 0-4-2 ST steam locomotive built by Exmoor Steam Railway [2] in Bratton Fleming, England. [1] [2] Her steam trials were completed at the Launceston Steam Railway in ...
L&NWR Heritage did a little more work on the boiler, culminating in riveting the foundation ring to the inner firebox. The newly-formed Heritage Boiler Steam Services Ltd. was selected to complete the boiler, and on 30 November 2017 the partially-completed boiler was moved to HBSS' new facility. [21]
Steam Train December 9, 2008 A journey with the Union Pacific 844 steam locomotive: Union Pacific 844: 6 Overnight Traveler December 16, 2008 Riding Amtrak's Empire Builder train from Chicago to Seattle: Empire Builder: 7 Circus Train December 23, 2008 The circus train from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey: Ringling Bros. and Barnum ...
Luke Magnus Nicolson [1] [2] [3] (born 9 July 2000 [4] [5]), known as Francis Bourgeois, is an English trainspotter, social media personality, model, and author.He is most known for his lighthearted and humorous videos on the topic of trains, posted to TikTok and Instagram.
Tyseley Locomotive Works, formerly the Birmingham Railway Museum, is the engineering arm of steam railtour promoter Vintage Trains based in Birmingham, England. It occupies part of the former Great Western Railway 's Tyseley depot , built in 1908 to accommodate expanding operations in the West Midlands, particularly the opening of the North ...
This was the only type of Garratt locomotive to operate on the New South Wales Government Railways.Designed to a light axle load of only 16 long tons (16.3 t; 17.9 short tons), they were intended for hauling feeder branch-line services to the main lines where heavier main-line locomotives could continue with the load.