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The 2-6-6-2s could handle more tonnage than the double-headed pair of 2-8-0s they replaced, and they burned less coal in the process. The 2-6-6-2s proved to be ideal mine run engines as their power and flexibility plus low weight on drivers made them ideal for the curving and heavily graded branches in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia.
Both of the Northern Pacific's 2-6-6-2 classes were copies of GN designs, including their Belpaire fireboxes, a rarity on NP steam locomotives. NP 3015, last of the Class Z's, had a troubled existence, suffering a crown sheet failure at Kennedy, Washington , on Stampede Pass circa 1916, then later derailing on the Wallace Branch in Idaho in 1933.
These were generally standard gauge 2-6-6-2 tank engines, either being saddle tanks or pannier tanks. Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2PT locomotive. At least three of these locomotives are preserved. The Black Hills Central Railroad operates a 2-6-6-2T engine built for Potlatch Lumber Company in 1926, later acquired by Weyerhaeuser Company and ...
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway No. 1308 is an articulated 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" type steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949. It was the next to the last Class 1 mainline locomotive built by Baldwin, closing out more than 100 years of production, a total of more than 70,000 locomotives.
Today, the Puffing Billy Railway is one of Victoria's main tourist attractions has a fleet of saved and modified 2-6-2T engines on its active steam roster and. [2] The Silverton Tramway operated two 2-6-2T locomotives from 1891, both of which are preserved in South Australia. Queensland Railways operated one 2-6-2 tender engine of the B16 1 ...
Get shortened URL; Download QR code; Print/export ... Locomotives classified 2-6-2 under the Whyte notation of ... South African Class 6Y 2-6-2; Steam diesel hybrid ...
The 2-6-6-6 (in Whyte notation) is an articulated locomotive type with two leading wheels, two sets of six driving wheels and six trailing wheels. Only two classes of the 2-6-6-6 type were built. One was the "Allegheny" class , built by the Lima Locomotive Works .
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