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VR H class H220 (1941), largest locomotive built in Australia and the largest non-articulated steam locomotive to run on Australian railways; NSWGR C38 class 3801 (1943), Australia's most famous locomotive; SAR 520 class 520 & 523, (1943/1944) locomotive that a character named Shane, in The Great Race, was based on; GWR 3440 City of Truro
As well as the many names from Greek, Roman and other mythologies, locomotives were named after famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, and geographical features, as well as imagery suggestive of speed and power: Mythology – Banshee, Osiris, Peri, Python, Venus; Famous people – Brunel, Dido, Euripides, Iron Duke, Victoria
One of the most powerful electric locomotives ever built, it also is the most powerful (short term) single-frame locomotive ever built (currently [when?] its maximum short term power is limited to 9,000 kilowatts (12,069 hp) [8]); It has immense short term power with a tractive effort of 312 kN up to a speed of 140 km/h (87 mph). DB Class 151
Pages in category "Steam locomotives of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 255 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Each name, though drawn from a variety of different people and things, was strongly connected to the locality through which the owning railway operated. For example the Metropolitan Railway's electric locomotives built in the 1920s carried the names of famous and fictional Londoners of varying types. Each name commenced with the same word or ...
Patrick Stirling, [1] CME of the Great Northern Railway where his famous 8 ft singles (4-2-2's) were the principal express engines for many years, achieving world-wide fame; Richard Trevithick, [1] [2] [3] "father of the locomotive", built first practical steam locomotive at Penydarran in Wales in 1804
The class names mainly denoted various racehorses; there were seven exceptions, detailed at the end. Nos. 4470–81 were ordered by the GNR as their nos. 1470–81; and although only the first two were actually delivered to the GNR, all twelve initially bore their GNR numbers, a distinguishing suffix letter "N" being added to the last two from ...
The ALCO boxcabs were diesel-electric switcher locomotives, otherwise known as AGEIR boxcabs as a contraction of the names of the builders. Produced by a partnership of three companies, ALCO (American Locomotive Company) built the chassis and running gear, General Electric the generator, motors and controls, and Ingersoll Rand the diesel