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Wilmington and Western 58 is an 0-6-0 "Switcher" type steam locomotive, built in October 1907 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway, it is preserved and operated by the Wilmington and Western Railroad.
It is one of several "stock" switchers equipped with a slope-backed tender. During the first nineteen years of its existence, the engine worked at the Baldwin Locomotive Works plant in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Painted in Baldwin's standard olive green with aluminum trim and lettering livery, the engine labored hauling raw materials and ...
This was the standard light switcher locomotive of the USRA types, and was of 0-6-0 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or "C" in UIC classification. A total of 255 locomotives were built under USRA control; these were sent to the following railroads:
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class B6 was its most successful class of switcher locomotive, or as the PRR termed them "shifter". The PRR preferred the 0-6-0 wheel arrangement for larger switchers, whereas on other railroads the 0-8-0 gained preference. The PRR generally used 2-8-0s when larger power was required.
A tender or coal-car (US only) is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, oil or torrefied biomass) and water.Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so their tenders are necessary to keep them running over long distances.
Temporarily borrowed the slope backed #56 tender in 1938. [22] Original #61 tender may have been loaned to Loco #191 or 194 from 1944 to 1946. [25] Original #61 tender subsequently placed as riprap along the Skagway River in 1949. [24] 62 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 4-6-0. 14,600 lbf (65 kN) June 1900 17895 Purchased new. Retired in 1945.
In 1876, the Cape Government Railways (CGR) placed a pair of 0-6-0 Stephenson's Patent permanently coupled back-to-back tank locomotives in service on the Cape Eastern system. They worked out of East London in comparative trials with the experimental 0-6-0+0-6-0 Fairlie locomotive that was acquired in that same year.
At the conclusion of Expo '86, 4466 and her tender were again loaded onto flatcars and moved back to the CSRM, via Union Pacific freight train. [2] This was not the only time 4466 took part in such a celebration; it also went to Sacramento (its current home) to take part in Railfair's of 1991 and 1999.