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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.
2174 was the one of the last steam locomotives to be withdrawn in the USA. Y7: 2-8-8-2 - - Never built 0 - Never built Never built [2] Z1: 2-6-6-2: 1300–1314: Alco-Richmond: 1912: 10: 0: 1934: Z1a: 2-6-6-2: 1315–1489: Alco-Richmond, Baldwin: 1912–1918: 175: 0: 1934–1958: 1331–1489 rebuilt to Z1b, 1399 rebuilt to Z2 Steam turbine ...
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
Experimental locomotive «MIDI-Locomotive» Be 3/5: 12201 1919 1 0 75 1177 1963 Experimental locomotive «Slow Berta» Be 4/6: 12301 1919 1 0 75 1570 1963 Experimental locomotive «Doryphore» Be 4/6: 12302 1919 1 0 75 1415 1965 Experimental locomotive Ce 4/4: 13501-13502 1905 2 2 60 257 1968 Experimental locomotives «Eva» and «Marianne» Ce 6/6
The locomotive was unable to return to Llangollen Railway following the management's decision to strictly limit the number of diesel locomotives based there. The combination of this and a number of accumlated faults saw the loco put up for sale in April 2000. East Lancs Diesel Group 1965 No. D7663 / 25313 BR Bo-Bo Class 25
Locomotives built or sold by the Westinghouse Electric Company. Westinghouse's transportation division (rail equipment) was founded 1894 and sold to AEG 1988, later merged into Adtranz and Bombardier. [1] [2] Production of locomotives ended after the early 1950s.
One of the few remaining examples of the world's largest steam locomotives, a 4-8-8-4 type, of which only 25 were ever built, and eight remain in museums CO-24 Forney Locomotive, F&CPV 108 0-4-4T 1897 built Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, CO A Forney locomotive with number 108. CO-25 another locomotive at Forney Transportation Museum
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. In the late 1930s, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) K2 and K2a 4-8-2 "Mountains" could not handle the rising passenger traffic after the Great Depression abated, so the N&W opted for a more powerful and fancy-looking passenger steam locomotive.