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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.
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
Experimental locomotive «MIDI-Locomotive» Be 3/5: 12201 1919 1 0 75 1177 1963 Experimental locomotive «Slow Berta» Be 4/6: 12301 1919 1 0 75 1570 1963 Experimental locomotive «Doryphore» Be 4/6: 12302 1919 1 0 75 1415 1965 Experimental locomotive Ce 4/4: 13501-13502 1905 2 2 60 257 1968 Experimental locomotives «Eva» and «Marianne» Ce 6/6
Locomotives built or sold by the Westinghouse Electric Company. Westinghouse's transportation division (rail equipment) was founded 1894 and sold to AEG 1988, later merged into Adtranz and Bombardier. [1] [2] Production of locomotives ended after the early 1950s.
Chesapeake and Ohio 614 is a class "J-3-A" 4-8-4 "Greenbrier" (Northern) type steam locomotive built in June 1948 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) as a member of the J-3-A class.
This resulted in a tank locomotive rather than the tender locomotive design otherwise used for long-distance high-speed links. In order to be able to attain the high running performance aimed at, locomotives and coaches were designed to be especially light, albeit the coal and water supplies still had to be sufficient for a one-way trip on the ...
Filer and Stowell is a company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the United States of America. [1] Founded by Delos Filer and John Stowell in 1856, the company has produced equipment primarily for the lumber industry, largely for lumber mills but also in the past stationary steam engines, marine steam engines and even steam locomotives for logging lines.
The locomotive, first six cars, and last two cars stayed on the rails undamaged. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] 177 passengers were injured while 18 of the most seriously injured need to be airlifted to hospitals in Norfolk for treatment.