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A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
One of the few remaining examples of the world's largest steam locomotives, a 4-8-8-4 type, of which only 25 were ever built, and eight remain in museums CO-24 Forney Locomotive, F&CPV 108 0-4-4T 1897 built Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, CO A Forney locomotive with number 108. CO-25 another locomotive at Forney Transportation Museum
The 4-6-6-4 locomotives (Nos. 903 and 904) were purchased from the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and sold back between 1946 and 1950. Diesel Locomotives [ edit ]
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[2] [3] When the train was running at 58 mph (93 km/h) near the Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, Virginia, two of the passenger cars struck a faulty switch on the main line derailing them and the other 12 passenger cars with them. [4] The locomotive, first six cars, and last two cars stayed on the rails undamaged.
[5] [9] The locomotive's skirting panels, running boards, valve gear parts, and other appliance parts were torn off from its left side. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The estimated damage cost to the six cars was $6,000 to the express baggage car, $7,500 to the RPO car, $12,000 to coach No. 539, and $9,000 to coach No. 1727. [ 9 ]
In July 2013, the locomotive was offered for sale, and was purchased by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Until January 2018 when its then boiler certificate expired, 44806 operated trains on the NYMR only between Grosmont and Pickering because it did not have mainline equipment fitted for use on trains running from Grosmont to Whitby.
The railway was started in Janesville, Wisconsin, [1] as a demonstration railway for Sandley locomotives and rolling stock. In 1952 the Sandleys relocated to the former right-of-way of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad near Wisconsin Dells, which was abandoned in favor of a route with a smoother grade 500 feet (152 m) to the south.