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The diesel–pneumatic locomotive was of interest in the 1930s because it offered the possibility of converting existing steam locomotives to diesel operation. The frame and cylinders of the steam locomotive would be retained and the boiler would be replaced by a diesel engine driving an air compressor .
Sentetsu Purena-class locomotives; South African Class 8R 4-8-0; South African Class 16DA 4-6-2 1930; South African Class 19B 4-8-2; South Australian Railways 720 class; Southern Pacific class AC-6; Southern Pacific GS-1 class; SR V class; List of SR V "Schools" class locomotives
Diesel Locomotives: The First 50 Years: A Guide to Diesels Built Before 1972. Railroad Reference Series. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89024-258-2. Marre, Louis A.; Pinkepank, Jerry A.; Drury, George H. (1995). The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide: A comprehensive reference manual to locomotives since 1972. Railroad ...
Pages in category "Diesel locomotives of the United States" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
As it rolls across Italy's central regions, a vintage diesel locomotive towing carriages from the 1930s and 1950s crosses the forests of the Majella National park and the Abruzzo highlands, giving ...
Initially, diesel locomotives were less powerful than the typical steam locomotives. Between the late 1930s and the late 1950s the power available with diesel locomotive engines roughly doubled, although the most powerful steam locomotives ever built still exceeded the power of the most powerful diesel locomotives from the late twentieth century.
This was an 0-4-0 diesel mechanical shunting locomotive built by Hudswell Clarke for the Crewe Works Narrow-gauge railway in 1930. It was the first diesel locomotive supplied to a major UK railway. [1] It had a McLaren-Benz 2-cylinder engine of 20 hp (15 kW) at 800 rpm. [2] It was transferred to Horwich Works in 1935.
In the European part of the USSR, almost all steam locomotives were replaced by diesel and electric locomotives in the 1960s; in Siberia and Central Asia, state records verify that L-class 2-10-0 s and LV-class 2-10-2 s were not retired until 1985. Until 1994, Russia had at least 1,000 steam locomotives stored in operable condition in case of ...