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The 2-8-8-2 was a design largely limited to American locomotive builders. The last 2-8-8-2 was retired in 1962 from the N&W's roster, two years past the ending of steam though steam was still used on steel mill lines and other railroads until 1983. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: (1′D)D1′ French classification: 140+041
The Mikado type was, in turn, ousted from the top-flight trains by larger freight locomotive wheel arrangements such as the 2-8-4, 2-10-2, 2-10-4 and articulated locomotives, but no successor type became ubiquitous and the Mike remained the most common road freight locomotive with most railroads until the end of steam. More than 14,000 were ...
The Quadruplex was to comprise three articulated engines of 8 driving wheels each beneath the locomotive itself, and a fourth engine beneath the tender.As a compound locomotive, engine cylinders 7 and 9 (as numbered on the above image) would receive high pressure steam to drive the first and third engines, each would exhaust as low-pressure steam to power cylinders 8 and 10 on the second and ...
The USRA 2-8-8-2 was a USRA standard class of steam locomotive designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. These locomotives were of 2-8-8-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or (1'D)'D1' in UIC classification.
The last of the series, the 141 R 1340, left the workshops of Canadian Locomotive Company in July 1947 and on 5 September was unloaded at the port of Cherbourg. Seventeen engines (the 141 R 1220–1235 and 141 R 1241 ) were lost at sea when the ship transporting them, the Norwegian ship MS Belpamela sank in a violent storm off Newfoundland on ...
The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S118 Class is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotive.Built to either 3 ft (914 mm), 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge or 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, they were used in at least 24 different countries.
Graceland is in solid hands with Riley Keough.. Since August 2023, the Daisy Jones & the Six actress, 35, has acted as the sole trustee of her late mom Lisa Marie Presley's estate and the owner of ...
Valley Railroad 40 is a preserved 101 class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive, built in August 1920 by American Locomotive Company's Brooks Works for the Minarets and Western Railway. It was initially built as No. 101 for the Portland, Astoria and Pacific Railroad as part of their small order of locomotives.