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A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
The 4-6-6-4 locomotives (Nos. 903 and 904) were purchased from the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and sold back between 1946 and 1950. Diesel Locomotives [ edit ]
Ian Allan Publishing was an English publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books. [1] It was founded by Ian Allan.. In 1942, Ian Allan, then working in the public relations department for the Southern Railway at Waterloo station, decided he could deal with many of the requests he received about rolling stock by collecting the information into a book. [2]
The ABC of Great Western Locomotives was published in 1943, followed by the ABC of London Midland & Scottish Locomotives, and the ABC of LNER Locomotives. [1] The 20,000 copies of the first edition of an ABC guide covering London Transport railways, trams, buses, trolleybuses and coaches sold out in a few days despite the poor quality paper ...
The locomotive was unable to return to Llangollen Railway following the management's decision to strictly limit the number of diesel locomotives based there. The combination of this and a number of accumlated faults saw the loco put up for sale in April 2000. East Lancs Diesel Group 1965 No. D7663 / 25313 BR Bo-Bo Class 25
The multitude of paint schemes that adorned the fleet is also examined as is the road's complex locomotive renumbering and retirement information. Sanders, Dale. The Northern Pacific. Mukilteo, WA: Hundman Publishing, 1999. This book features an all-color tour of the entire Northern Pacific Railway system, from the Great Lakes to the Pacific ...
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Chesapeake and Ohio 614 is a class "J-3-A" 4-8-4 "Greenbrier" (Northern) type steam locomotive built in June 1948 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) as a member of the J-3-A class.