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This is a 2-4-4 Mason Bogie. Note the deep firebox permitted by this configuration, and the high reversing shaft (below the bell) with a long lifting link to the valve gear radius rod. 2-4-4T Mason Bogie #10. Mason Machine Works, Taunton, MA. Built 1887. Photo location: Behind the Lynn, MA Train Station of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn ...
The valve gear, actuated by connection to the driving wheels, ensures that steam is delivered to the piston with precision. Types are slide valves, piston valves or poppet valves. [2] [3]: 62 Valve chest / Steam chest Valve chamber next to the cylinder (24) containing passageways to distribute steam to the cylinders. [6]: 41 [3]: 75 Firebox
The National 2.5 in Gauge Association continues to support live steam passenger hauling in 2.5-inch gauge using MES tracks. They use a "scale" appropriate to the original prototype modelling both standard and narrow gauge locomotives to run on 2.5-inch track. -1:16: 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm) A worldwide garden railroad scale.
They were connected to 81-inch (2,057 mm) driving wheels by a variety of valve gear: most had Stephenson valve gear and 11-inch (279 mm) piston valves; No. 1026 was fitted up with Youngs rotary valves and valve gear in 1903, [1] but later reverted to Stephensons valve gear.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (Denver and Rio Grande Western) 463 is a 3-foot narrow-gauge class "K-27" 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903.
White Mountain Central Railroad 4: Clark's Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire. 1401: 1899: 2: 37 short tons (33.0 long tons; 33.6 metric tons) Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge RR 2: Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton, California. Oldest known operational Heisler. [3] 1306: 1915: 2: 40 short tons (35.7 long tons ...
The Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 is a class of 2-8-2 "Mikado" type narrow-gauge steam locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.They were new steam locomotives built in the D&RGW Burnham Shops as a near copy of the Rio Grande class K-36. [3]
Tremont and Gulf Railroad No. 30 is a preserved class 30 2-8-2 "Mikado" steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1917 for the Tremont and Gulf Railroad. It was used by the T&G for hauling freight trains in branch lines throughout the state of Louisiana until 1954, when it was sold to the Magma Arizona Railroad and renumbered 7.