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The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) class T1 duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 steam locomotives, introduced in 1942 with two prototypes and later in 1945-1946 with 50 production examples, were the last steam locomotives built for the PRR and arguably its most controversial.
Pennsylvania Railroad 5550 (PRR 5550) is a mainline duplex drive steam locomotive under construction in the United States. With an estimated completion by 2030, the locomotive will become the 53rd example of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 steam locomotive class and the only operational locomotive of its type, [7] as well as the largest steam locomotive built in the United States since 1952.
A nonprofit group known as the T1 Trust is in the process of constructing a new duplex locomotive, a T1-class engine known as Pennsylvania Railroad 5550, intending to utilize design improvements from the postwar steam era not used or seldom tested on pre-existing T1s in the hope of creating better performance characteristics. The estimated year ...
Rearward cylinders and gear of the sole N-1 The Pennsylvania Railroad's controversial class T1 duplex locomotive. The first locomotive built with this arrangement was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's sole class N-1 #5600 George H. Emerson, constructed at the B&O's own Mount Clare Shops in May 1937. To reduce the fixed wheelbase, this ...
The PRR never built any steam locomotives of the 4-8-4 "Northern" type, although the T1 duplexes were effectively a "Northern" with the driving wheels split into two groups. R1 - experimental electric locomotive, surpassed by the GG1.
[4] [28] The PRR continued developing the T1 class of 4-4-4-4 duplex locomotives but wheel slip and mechanical failures also plagued the T1. Before Pennsylvania Railroad commissioned Baldwin Locomotive Works for the T1 in 1940, it had already begun developing duplex designs for fast locomotives since 1938, including a rigid-frame 4-2-2-4 and ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), ... S1, and T1 "Duplex Drive" locomotives, and the S2 turbine locomotive. Unlike most of their competition, the Pennsy ...
Raymond Loewy styled the new cars and the PRR GG1 electric locomotive as well as some streamlined steam locomotives for PRR, notably the S1 and T1 Duplex drive engines. The Broadway Limited was one of four pre- World War II PRR trains to receive such equipment; the others being the General (New York–Chicago), Spirit of St. Louis (New York ...