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Between 1916 and 1930, the New York Central Railroad (NYC) ordered 4-8-2 L-1 and L-2 steam locomotives, replacing the 4-6-2 Pacifics for use on fast mainline freight trains. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While the other railroads referred to the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement as Mountain , the NYC uses the name Mohawk after the Mohawk River, which ran alongside ...
The Toledo and Ohio Central Railway (T&OC) was a railway company in the U.S. state of Ohio from 1885 to 1952. In 1928 it was leased by the New York Central System , which purchased the line in 1938. [ 1 ]
The other Mohawk, No. 3001, is a 1940 ALCO-built L-3a at the National New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart, Indiana and is the largest surviving NYC steam locomotive. In October 2024, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society announced that they had acquired No. 3001 and made plans to eventually restore it to operating condition.
Henderson is located near the center of Chester County at (35.443025, -88.644345), [9] to the west of the South Fork Forked Deer U.S. Route 45 passes through the city, leading northwest 17 miles (27 km) to Jackson and south 20 miles (32 km) to Selmer.
Henderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with its county seat in Lexington, [1] and with a population of 27,842 as of the 2020 census. [2] The county was founded in 1821 and named after James Henderson, a soldier in the War of 1812. [3]
The trail envisioned for the Beacon Line would start at the Beacon waterfront and head east through Fishkill, Hopewell Junction and into Putnam County where it would link up with the Dutchess Rail ...
Knoxville and Ohio Railroad: Tennessee and Ohio Railroad: SOU: 1884 1889 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway: Tennessee and Pacific Railroad: L&N: 1866 1877 Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway: Tennessee and Sequatchie Valley Railroad: 1880 1883 Tennessee Central Railroad: Tennessee Southern Railroad: IC: 1881 1884
The Tennessee Central Railway was founded in 1884 as the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad by Alexander S. Crawford. It was an attempt to open up a rail route from the coal and minerals of East Tennessee to the markets of the midstate, a service which many businessmen felt was not being adequately provided by the existing railroad companies.