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The Virginian EL-C, later known as the New Haven EF-4 and E33, was an electric locomotive built for the Virginian Railway by General Electric in August 1955. They were the first successful production locomotives to use Ignitron (mercury arc) rectifier technology.
Virginian 4, the last surviving steam engine of the Virginian Railway, on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia.. Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ...
The equivalent UIC classification is to be refined to (1'D)D(D2') for these engines. Only one 2-8-8-8-4 was ever built, a Mallet-type for the Virginian Railway in 1916. [1] Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, it became the only example of their class XA, so named due to the experimental nature of the locomotive.
The locomotives were used on the 133-mile (214 km) electrified portion of the railroad, from Roanoke, Virginia to Mullens, West Virginia. These large motor-generator locomotives weighed 1,033,832 pounds (468.938 t), were 150 feet 8 inches (45.92 m) long, and were capable of producing 6,800 horsepower (5.1 MW).
Virginian Railway USE class No. 737, which was originally built as Norfolk and Western 2015 and previously operated as Santa Fe 1792 [20] In December 1947, the Santa Fe sold Nos. 1790-1796 to the Virginian Railway, where they were renumbered again as Nos. 736-742, reclassified as USE's, and rebuilt at their Princeton, West Virginia shops.
Pages in category "Virginian Railway locomotives" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. 2-10-10-2; V.
Virginian Railway hopper car #107768, stored offsite. Steam crane #527665 with boom car #514902. Crane scrapped in 2017, flatcar stored offsite. Virginian Railway 250-ton wrecking derrick B-37 #40037, Southern Railway boxcar #33348; Southern Railway Big John hopper #8638; Norfolk Southern flatcar. Used as a stage for events; 3 Norfolk & Western ...
Two classes of 2-6-6-6 locomotives were built: the sixty H-8 "Allegheny" class locomotives for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) between 1941 and 1948, [1] and the eight AG "Blue Ridge" class locomotives for the Virginian Railway in 1945. [2] (The locomotives were Series AG on the Virginian.