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A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
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This is a list of preserved locomotives in the United States, organized by state then city or town of their last-known locations. It is intended to list all locomotives that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage registers, or that are preserved and displayed or stored or operated at museums or heritage railways .
[2] [3] When the train was running at 58 mph (93 km/h) near the Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, Virginia, two of the passenger cars struck a faulty switch on the main line derailing them and the other 12 passenger cars with them. [4] The locomotive, first six cars, and last two cars stayed on the rails undamaged.
Indonesian Railway Company have 2 surviving roundhouses as in 2019: the one near Lempuyangan railway station in Yogyakarta and next to Tebing Tinggi station in North Sumatra. Although both no longer functioning as locomotive shed. Jatibarang Brebes Sugar Mill has a historic roundhouse for their fleet of 600mm locomotives.
The MOW crew had to disconnect the locomotive from its tender and rerail it one set of wheels at a time. [9] On the afternoon of January 26, No. 611 was finally back on the rails and towed to Williamson for inspection. [5] [9] The locomotive's skirting panels, running boards, valve gear parts, and other appliance parts were torn off from its ...
Milwaukee Road 261 is a S3 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Schenectady, New York, in July 1944 for the Milwaukee Road (MILW). It was used for heavy mainline freight and passenger work until being retired by the MILW in 1956.
The Delaware and Hudson K-62 Class was a class of fifteen 4-8-4 steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company's Schenectady Works in 1943. They were intended as dual-service locomotives, hauling both freight and passenger trains until dieselization in 1953.