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Only the South African Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain was more numerous at 120 locomotives. [3] The 15th class was a development of the RR 16th class 2-8-2+2-8-2 Garratts, to meet a requirement for a locomotive with a larger driving wheel diameter for higher speed train service on the more level parts of the railway.
Since it was designed for the Paris-Saint Petersburg express, it was named the Baltic after the Baltic Sea, which was a logical extension of the naming convention that started with the 4-4-2 and 4-6-2. [2] The first 4-6-4 in the United States of America, J-1a #5200 of the New York Central Railroad, was built in 1927 to the railroad's design by ...
The Battle of High Bridge refers to two engagements fought on April 6, 1865, and April 7, 1865, near the end of the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Farmville, Virginia. The first battle is often the one identified as the Battle of High Bridge.
The Lionel Corporation used the 2-6-4 wheel arrangement in many of its model steam locomotives, including the 2037 used in the infamous pastel-coloured Girls' Train. [9] Their 2-6-4 model was based on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s K4 class pacific , even though this was a 4-6-2 rather than a 2-6-4.
The Mercedes-Benz OM906 or Mitsubishi 6S20 is a 6.4 liter (6,374cc) Straight-6 (I6) OHV Diesel engine with 3 valves per cylinder. [1] [2] It is related to the Straight-4 OM904 engine which has two cylinders chopped off, while the bore and stroke remain unchanged. [3] It launched in 1996 and had a Unit injector system to deliver fuel to every ...
The UIC classification is refined to (2'C)C2' for simple articulated locomotives. Challengers were most common in the Union Pacific Railroad , but many other railroads ordered them as well. An expansion for the Union Pacific Challenger class was the Union Pacific Big Boy class, being a 4-8-8-4 , instead of a 4-6-6-4.
The Mercedes-Benz OM648 engine is a 3.2 Litre, straight-6 4 valves per cylinder, cast iron block diesel engine manufactured by the Mercedes-Benz division of Daimler AG as a replacement for the previous Mercedes-Benz inline-5 and -6 engines. The engine features common rail fuel injection and a variable nozzle turbocharger. The injection system ...
The Navistar VT engine family is a line of diesel engines that was produced by International Truck and Engine (Navistar International) from 2003 to 2016.Developed as the replacement for the T444E V8, the VT V6 and V8 diesels were the smallest diesel engines used in Navistar vehicles, slotted below the DT inline-6 engine family.