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Many 4-8-2 locomotives were therefore built for dual service. [citation needed] About 2,200 Mountain type locomotives were built for 41 American railroads. With 600 4-8-2 locomotives, the largest user in the United States was the New York Central Railroad (NYC). The Water Level Route eschewed the hilly moniker in favor of Mohawk type. [32]
The New York Central became the largest 4-8-2 user in North America, with 600 locomotives of this type built for its service; only the Pennsylvania Railroad came close, with 301 M1's of the type. The Mohawk type was the pre-eminent freight power of the network, displacing the 2-8-2 type from first-line service.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-8-8-2 is a locomotive with four leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a two-wheel trailing truck. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: 2DD1 (also known as German classification and Italian classification) French classification: 240+041
Southern Pacific 4294 is a class "AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California.
Pages in category "4-8-2 locomotives" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. ... South African Class 23 4-8-2; South Australian Railways 500 ...
This was the standard light freight locomotive of the USRA types, and was of 4-8-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 2′D1′ in UIC classification. A total of 15 locomotives were built under the auspices of the USRA.
Southern Pacific Railroad's AC-11 class of cab forward steam locomotives was the seventh class of 4-8-8-2 locomotives ordered by Southern Pacific (SP) from Baldwin Locomotive Works; [1] SP was so pleased with the AC-10 class built a year earlier that the railroad began placing orders for AC-11s while the AC-10s were still being built and ...
By the 1930s and 1940s, the J-1s and J-2s started to be replaced on passenger trains by "super-power" locomotives, in the form of the J-3 class 4-8-4s and the L-2 4-6-4s. All of the J-1s were retired by 1948, with the last of the J-2s retired by 1952, when the C&O dieselized their passenger trains.