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Operators. Great Central Railway. → London & North Eastern Railway. → British Railways. Withdrawn. 1947-1949. Disposition. All scrapped. GCR Class 8G was a class of 10 two-cylinder steam locomotives of the 4-6-0 wheel arrangement built in 1906 for the Great Central Railway.
The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built. It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal.
The 8-4-4 System educational program is a system of education in Kenya with eight years of primary education, four years of secondary education and four years of university education. [1] The system was introduced in 1985 to replace the 7-4-2-3 curriculum, which consisted of seven years of primary school (classes 1–7), four years of lower ...
Santa Fe 3751. Santa Fe 3759. Santa Fe Class 2900. South African Class 25 4-8-4. South African Class 25NC 4-8-4. South African Class 26 4-8-4. South Australian Railways 500 class (steam) South Australian Railways 520 class. Southern Pacific 4449.
Union Pacific 844, the only steam locomotive never retired by a North American Class I railroad. The 4-8-4 wheel arrangement was a progression from the 4-8-2 Mountain type and, like the 2-8-4 Berkshire and 4-6-4 Hudson types, an example of the "Super Power" concept in steam locomotive design that made use of the larger firebox that could be supported by a four-wheel trailing truck, which ...
The Class IS locomotive was a passenger derivative of the Class FD 1’E1’-h2 (2-10-2) freight locomotive and had many parts in common with the Class FD. The Soviet 2-8-4 was the most numerous single Berkshire class built in the world. Kolomna Locomotive Works built the first four locomotives.
From 1044.111 onwards, the locomotives were given an umber gray frame and the computer number with self-check digit ex works. The prototypes 1044.01 and 02 still had panels with metal digits. From the 1044.03 onwards, the serial number was written on the panels with 80 centimeter high adhesive digits instead of metal digits (nickname “Taferl ...
El Chavo ("The Kid" or "The Boy", Spanish chavo also meaning "cent"), also known as El Chavo del Ocho ("The Kid/Boy from number Eight") during its earliest episodes, is a Mexican television sitcom series created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito) and produced by Televisa. It premiered on February 26, 1973 and ended on January 7, 1980 ...