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Some roads developed these into the Hudson (or Baltic) type 4-6-4, others preferred the versatility of the 4-8-2 Mountain and 4-8-4 Northern types, and some, like the Santa Fe, bought both. One railroad, the St. Louis-San Francisco or Frisco , actually converted a few existing Pacific types to Hudsons with larger fireboxes in their Springfield ...
The 4-6-4 tank locomotive configuration was a popular type with the Western Australian Government Railways. The D class was introduced for suburban passenger service in 1912. Its successors, both also of the 4-6-4T wheel arrangement, were the Dm class of 1945 that was rebuilt from older E class 4-6-2 tender locomotives, and the Dd class of 1946.
The Milwaukee Road's class "F7" comprised six (#100–#105) high-speed, streamlined 4-6-4 "Baltic" (Hudson) type steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1937–38 to haul the Milwaukee's Hiawatha express passenger trains.
Milwaukee Road class EP-1 - 12 2-unit boxcab sets (24 locomotives) built in 1915 by ALCO/GE.Converted to freight class EF-1 in 1920. In 1950, two boxcab two-unit sets were converted for passenger service (class EP-1A).
The Milwaukee Road classes F6 and F6-a comprised twenty-two steam locomotives of the 4-6-4 configuration, commonly nicknamed “Hudson” but known as “Baltic” on the Milwaukee Road. The fourteen class F6 locomotives were not delivered from their builder, the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until 1929–1930. In 1931 ...
The result was the K4 class 4-6-2 Pacific, which was designed under the supervision of PRR Chief of Motive Power J.T. Wallis, assisted by Chief Mechanical Engineer Alfred W. Gibbs and Mechanical Engineer Axel Vogt, as one of a pair of classes with the L1 class 2-8-2 Mikado, sharing the same boiler design and other features.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class Q2 comprised one prototype and twenty-five production duplex steam locomotives of 4-4-6-4 wheel arrangement built between 1944 and 1945. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] They were the largest non- articulated locomotives ever built and the most powerful locomotives ever static tested, producing 7,987 cylinder horsepower ...
Milwaukee Road class A No. 1 pauses near Milwaukee in 1951. Designed for a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 hour schedule between Chicago and St. Paul, the class proved capable of handling nine cars on a 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 hour schedule. The only change during their service life was the addition of a Mars Light beneath the winged emblem on the nose in 1947.