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A rear view of the same locomotive. The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) 0298 Class or Beattie Well Tank is a class of British steam locomotive. They are 2-4-0 WT s, originally built between 1863 and 1875 for use on passenger services in the suburbs of London, but later used on rural services in South West England. Out of a total ...
Virginia and Truckee 21 J.W. Bowker, the last remaining Baldwin 2-4-0 Baldwin's Montezuma of 1871, the first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande. In the collection of the California State Railroad Museum is the J.W. Bowker locomotive, a 2-4-0 engine built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1875 for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. [9]
Locomotives classified 2-4-0 under the Whyte notation of locomotive axle arrangements. The equivalent UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements is 1B or 1'B.
In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotive wheel arrangement, a 2-4-4-0 is a locomotive with two leading wheels, two sets of four driving wheels, and no trailing wheels. Examples of this type were constructed as Mallet locomotives.
0-4-0+0-4-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement , 2-4-0+0-4-2 is an articulated locomotive , usually of the Garratt type. The wheel arrangement is effectively two 2-4-0 locomotives operating back to back, with the boiler and cab suspended between the two power units.
The S&DR George England 2-4-0 were 2-4-0 steam locomotives built by George England for the Somerset and Dorset Railway (S&DR) and its predecessor, the Somerset Central Railway (SCR). There were frequent re-numberings, which explains the presence of two number 11s.
Built by ALCO (shop # 53970), this locomotive is a Mallet Compound type, built for the Taupo Totara Timber Company for use on their 51 miles (82 km) TTT Railway between Putāruru and Mokai in the North Island. It hauled timber trains over the TTT Railway northern section, while Heisler types worked the mountainous southern section.
The 69 Class designed by William Dean for the Great Western Railway consisted of eight 2-4-0 tender locomotives, constructed at Swindon Works between 1895 and 1897. Nominally they were renewals of eight 2-2-2 engines that carried the same numbers, these themselves having been renewals by George Armstrong at Wolverhampton of 2-2-2 s designed by Daniel Gooch as long ago as 1855.