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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.
Milwaukee Road Online; Ross, Don. "Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific". Don's Rail Photos; Edson, William D. (Spring 1977). "Milwaukee Road All Time Steam, Diesel and Electric Roster". Railroad History (136). The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Inc.: 29– 124.
The Chicago and North Western Railway class J was a class of 310 American 2-8-2 locomotives. They were built between 1913 and 1923 by the American Locomotive Company. In addition, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (the Omaha Road) acquired 32, and also classified them as class J.
Production of Cooper-Bessemer powered Universal Series locomotives began in 1956 and some 400 export locomotives were sold before the U25B was offered in the United States. The U25B was announced by General Electric as a domestic model on April 26, 1960. It was the first locomotive powered by GE's highly successful FDL-16 engine.
In November 1883, control passed to the Chicago and North Western Railway Company. [13] At the end of 1956, C. St. P. M. & O. operated 1,616 miles of road and 2396 miles of track; that year, it reported 2,115 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 65 million passenger-miles.
Charles Burrell & Sons Road Locomotives were slightly modified versions of their general-purpose engines to allow for faster rates of travel over long journeys. [18] A general-purpose engine was designed to spend much of its life stationary, powering belt-driven equipment, whereas a road locomotive was constantly on the move, therefore subtle ...
The Twin Cities Hiawatha was the original Hiawatha, beginning service between Chicago and the Twin Cities on May 29, 1935.The Hiawatha used styled streamlined Class A 4-4-2 steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company and was intended to compete directly with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's (Burlington Route) Twin Cities Zephyrs and Chicago and North Western Railway ...
A turntable for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Turnplates at the Park Lane goods station of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1831. Early wagonways were industrial railways for transporting goods—initially bulky and heavy items, particularly mined stone, ores and coal—from one point to another, most often to a dockside to be loaded onto ships. [4]