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The Great Central Railway Class 11F or Improved Director Class is a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotive designed by John G. Robinson for passenger work. The LNER classified them as Class D11 in 1923. They were based on the earlier GCR Class 11E "Director" class (LNER D10).
Locomotives in Detail: 3 Gresley 4-6-2- A4 Class. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-3085-5. An overall history of the Gresley A4 class, as well as unparalleled details about the class and individual members. Trevena, Nigel (1985). Steam For Scrap, Volume 2. Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-906899-17-6.
The Great Northern Railway Class H2 and H3 (classified K1 and K2 by the LNER) was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotive designed for mixed-traffic work. The class was created as a locomotive which could haul heavier goods trains at speeds of up to 40 mph. The class were later developed into the more powerful H4 class.
The N1s was a large locomotive; the boiler was the largest then used on any non-experimental PRR locomotive, and the firebox had 79.9 square feet (7.4 m 2) of grate area and a 5-foot (1.52 m) long combustion chamber. No feedwater heater was fitted, but a mechanical stoker and power reverse were installed, being necessities on such a large ...
It was the last new steam locomotive to be delivered to the Nickel Plate Road, and alongside L&N 1991, another 2-8-4 for the Louisville and Nashville, is the last of 36 steam engines completed by Lima-Hamilton from 1947 to 1949, and the final 2-8-4 locomotive on standard gauge completed in the world.
Steam 2-8-2, narrow-gauge 1903 built 1975 NRHP-listed Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, CO/NM Operational CO-33 C&TSRR No. 484 Steam 2-8-2, narrow-gauge 1925 built Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, CO/NM Operational CO-34 C&TSRR No. 487 Steam 2-8-2, narrow-gauge 1925 built Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, CO/NM Operational CO-35
Although No. 542 needed $6,000.00 in boiler work, the A&Y convinced Southern, after several weeks of negotiations, to lease the locomotive. No. 542 was delivered a second time to the A&Y on June 14, 1946 and was transferred to lease in place of No. 531. [2] After the A&Y ceased operations in 1950, No. 542 returned to the Southern.
Between 1929 and 1944, the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, a class II company connecting Conneaut, Erie, and Bessemer, [1] ordered a fleet of 47 H-1 class 2-10-4 "Texas" types, [2] which were nearly direct copies of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's own fleet of 2-10-4 "Colorado" types, from the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York, and the Baldwin Locomotive Works in ...