Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
No in-house tests were made with a dynomometer, but estimates from the Altoona test rated 6110's drawbar pull at 4,100 horsepower at 100 mph. [16] No prior class of steam locomotives in numbers could develop over 4,000 drawbar horsepower at this speed, while the only class which could match this figure was the later New York Central Niagaras.
The Milwaukee F7s are accepted as the fastest steam locomotives by a different measure—scheduled speed between stations. In 1939, shortly after they were introduced into passenger service, the Twin Cities Hiawatha schedule was modified such that the engines would need to run the 78.3 mi (126.0 km) between Portage and Sparta, Wisconsin in 58 ...
GE steam turbine locomotives; Gov. Stanford; Grand Trunk Western 5629; Great Northern 2507; Great Northern 2584; Great Northern F-8; Great Northern H-5; Great Northern M-1; Great Northern O-1; Great Northern P-1; Great Northern P-2; Great Northern Q-1; Great Northern S-1; Great Northern S-2; Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 1702
Pennsylvania Railroad 5550 (PRR 5550) is a mainline duplex drive steam locomotive under construction in the United States. With an estimated completion by 2030, the locomotive will become the 53rd example of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 steam locomotive class and the only operational locomotive of its type, [7] as well as the largest steam locomotive built in the United States since 1952.
Its high-speed capability was such that many have claimed that the S1 exceeded on multiple occasions the 126 mph (203 km/h) record steam locomotive speed set in 1938 by the British LNER locomotive 4468 Mallard. The engine was claimed to have exceeded 152 mph (245 km/h) on the Fort Wayne-Chicago run, as it was reported that the PRR received a ...
All of them originally used saturated steam, but some were later equipped with superheaters while all the others were provided with feedwater heaters. These locomotives had a maximum speed limit of 52.8 miles per hour (85 kilometres per hour) and were designed to be able to haul 1,177 long tons at 22.4 miles per hour (36 kilometres per hour). A ...
Class D16 on the Pennsylvania Railroad was their final development of the 4-4-0 "American" type of steam locomotive. [2] A total of 429 of these locomotives were built at the PRR's Juniata Shops, spread across five subclasses; some had 80 in (2,030 mm) diameter driving wheels for service in level territory, while others had 68 in (1,730 mm) drivers for mountainous terrain. [3]
The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S100 Class is a 0-6-0 T steam locomotive that was designed for switching (shunting) duties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. After the war, they were used on railways in Austria , China , Egypt , France , Great Britain , Greece , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Italy , the Netherlands ...