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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 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.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway No. 1308 is an preserved 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 ...
First true 3D id Tech engine. id Tech 2.5 Quake II engine: C: 2001 C: Yes 3D Windows, Linux, macOS: Quake II, Heretic II, SiN, Daikatana, Gravity Bone: GPL-2.0-or-later: Also termed the Quake II engine. Improvements to the id Tech 2 engine. id Tech 3 Quake III Arena engine: C: 2005 C: Yes 3D Windows, Linux, macOS
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 .
The arrangement is effectively two 2-6-0 locomotives operating back-to-back and was used on Garratt, Kitson-Meyer, and Golwé articulated locomotives. A similar wheel arrangement exists for Mallet steam locomotives on which only the front engine unit swivels, but these are referred to as 2-6-6-2.