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LMS Princess Coronation Class 46233 Duchess of Sutherland is a steam locomotive built in 1938 for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) at Crewe Works to a design by William Stanier. It is a 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive built as part of the LMS Coronation Class for its express passenger services, including the Royal Scot service from ...
Wilmington and Western 58 is an 0-6-0 "Switcher" type steam locomotive, built in October 1907 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway, it is preserved and operated by the Wilmington and Western Railroad.
Union Pacific No. 119 was a 4-4-0 American type steam locomotive made famous for meeting the Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. [1]: 80 It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,700 times.
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The "Puffy" locomotive at the Stockyards displaying the old Tarantula branding Built by Cooke Locomotive Works in 1896, 2248, nicknamed Puffy, is the railroad's 4-6-0 steam locomotive. It was originally owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad for mixed passenger and freight use in California.
Since the locomotive's original tender (fuel and water car) had deteriorated beyond repair and was dismantled in 1910, the PRR built a replica of the tender at its Altoona, Pennsylvania, workshops. [23] The locomotive was also refurbished in Altoona for operation during the fair. [24] This fair was the last steam up for the locomotive until 1980.
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