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Heavy ten-wheel wet steam locomotive with a Stroomann water tube boiler developed by O&K for the Waltrop mining inspectorate with the road numbers 20 and 21. Both locomotives received normal superheated steam boilers in 1921. They were subsequently used as no. 22 and 28 in the Gladbeck (Westphalia) harbour area. [53] 6273: 1913: 0-4-0
The E, E2 and E5 classes of the Swedish State Railways (SJ) were three closely related types of steam locomotives.The E class 0-8-0 locomotives were part of the development of modern superheated types that had begun with the A class in 1906, and were intended for both mixed traffic in Norrland and heavy freight trains in southern Sweden.
A live steam festival (often called a "Steam Fair" in the UK and a live steam "meet" in the US) is a gathering of people interested in steam engine technology. Locomotives, trains, traction engines , steam wagons , steam rollers , showman's engines and tractors , steam boats and cars , and stationary steam engines may be on display, both full ...
This is a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) gauge locomotive, and therefore was unable to operate on the line. 822 The Earl: Beyer Peacock 0-6-0 T: 1902 £350,000 overhaul completed by the Vale of Rheidol railway in 2021. The locomotive has now returned to operating trains on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
The Shay locomotive is a geared steam locomotive that originated and was primarily used in North America. The locomotives were built to the patents of Ephraim Shay, who has been credited with the popularization of the concept of a geared steam locomotive. Although the design of Ephraim Shay's early locomotives differed from later ones, there is ...
The Union Pacific Big Boy is a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in revenue service until 1962. The 25 Big Boy locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch Range between Ogden, Utah, and Green ...
In many cases, where 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 steam locomotives were no longer sufficient, O&K built 0-4-4-0 or 0-6-6-0 compound locomotives, Mallet design, which supplemented the more conventional looking 0-4-2 locomotives (in Germany categorized as 2×2/2 and 2x3/3 double compound locomotives in comparison to the more conventional looking 2/3 ...
The NZR K B class of 1939 was a class of six mixed traffic steam locomotives built for New Zealand Railways Department (NZR), that operated on New Zealand's railway network. After the success of the K class , the K B class were built to meet the increasing traffic demands on the Midland Line in the South Island .