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Pages in category "Railway locomotives introduced in 1880" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Southern network expanded from 11,000 miles (17,700 km) in 1870 to 29,000 miles (46,700 km) in 1890. The lines were owned and directed overwhelmingly by Northerners. Railroads helped create a mechanically skilled group of craftsmen and broke the isolation of much of the region.
Steam locomotives of the Chicago and North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. The Timeline of U.S. Railway History depends upon the definition of a railway, as follows: A means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
In 1898–1899 fifty locomotives of the later batches (Est 684 – 692, 693 – 704, 705 – 733) were rebuilt as 4-6-0T locomotives and renumbered to Est B 684 – B 733 , later SNCF series 230 TA. [6] In 1905 twenty-five locomotives of the earlier series (Est 613 – 637) were modified for shunting and were renumbered as Est G 613 – G 637.
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In addition to these, many railroads operating steam locomotives built locomotives in their shops. Notable examples include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Mount Clare Shops, Norfolk & Western's Roanoke Shops, Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Works and the Southern Pacific's Sacramento Shops. An estimate of total steam locomotive production in ...
The Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company is chartered as a holding company to acquire railroads that the Richmond and Danville Railroad itself couldn't. Lima Machine Works ships the first Shay locomotive to Ephraim Shay 's design to a logger in Grand Rapids, Michigan .
While the wheel arrangement and type name Atlantic would come to fame in the fast passenger service competition between railroads in the United States by mid-1895, [2] the tank locomotive version of the 4-4-2 Atlantic type first made its appearance in the United Kingdom in 1880, when William Adams designed the 1 Class 4-4-2 T of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR).