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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.
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 ...
In rail transport, a wheel arrangement or wheel configuration is a system of classifying the way in which wheels are distributed under a locomotive. [1] Several notations exist to describe the wheel assemblies of a locomotive by type, position, and connections, with the adopted notations varying by country.
The idler wheels may be smaller than the powered wheels. Examples of locomotives with this wheel arrangement include the EMD E-units and ALCO PAs, which were high speed passenger locomotives, and the dual service FM Erie-built. BNSF took delivery of ES44C4 locomotives with this type of truck in 2009. In the UK, the Class 31 uses this wheel ...
Steel tire on a steam locomotive's driving wheel is heated with gas flames to expand and loosen it so it may be slipped over the wheel.. The steel wheel of a steam locomotive and other older types of rolling stock were usually fitted with a steel tire (American English) or tyre (in British English, Australian English and others) to provide a replaceable wearing element on a costly wheel.
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge The JŽ series 611 is a historic vehicle of Yugoslav Railways . It was a diesel-electric multiple unit made from aluminium alloy.
The Union Pacific 9000 class was the only class of steam locomotives with a 4-12-2 wheel arrangement ever to be built, also the 9000 class was the largest rigid frame locomotive ever built. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives , the locomotives had four leading wheels , twelve coupled driving wheels , and two ...
Twenty-nine 4-6-2+2-6-4 Garratts, constructed between 1936 and 1941 by Société Franco-Belge in Northern France, operated until the Algerian independence war caused their withdrawal in 1951. This class, designated 231-132BT, was streamlined and featured Cossart motion gear, mechanical stokers and 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) driving wheels, the largest ...