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Wasatch Railroad Contractors was a railroad equipment repair business founded in 1999 by John E. Rimmasch in Heber, Utah. [1] The company specialized in historic railcar and steam locomotive repairs, and it employed former Union Pacific Steam manager Steve Lee. [2]
The L1s shared the boiler and many other components with the K4s 4-6-2 "Pacific" type, giving a total of 425 locomotives with many standard parts. [1]Although the L1s type was quite successful, it was very much eclipsed in PRR service by the larger and more powerful I1s/I1sa 2-10-0 "Decapods", which arrived in service only two years after the L1s and were very suited to the PRR's mountain ...
A train composed of defective "bad order" equipment or locomotives that are en route to a repair shop [147] Hot box An overheated wheel bearing. This comes from the era before the widespread use of roller bearings where the ends of an axle rested in solid copper bearings housed in a journal box filled with oil soaked cotton waste.
Harvey Steel Car and Repair Works (c. 1892) Harvey, Illinois [9] Haskell and Barker Car Company (1852–1971) Michigan City, Indiana [9] Hazelton Car Works (1880s) Hazelton, Pennsylvania [9] Hicks Locomotive and Car Works (1897–1911) Chicago, Illinois [9] Huntingdon Car Works (1872 – c. 1885) Huntingdon, Pennsylvania [9]
In 1989, Life-Like introduced the Proto 2000 line of finely detailed HO scale diesel locomotives. The first offering was the Proto 2000 BL2. The Proto 1000 line was later created to produce a line of trains that would compete against other mid-range products like those made by Athearn and Walthers.
No. 475 worked on the N&W, hauling freight and coal trains on the mainline until the 1920s, when it was reassigned to pull short mixed freight trains on the 9-mile (14-kilometre) Blacksburg Branch between Christiansburg and Blacksburg, as bigger locomotives, including the Y class 2-8-8-2s and K class 4-8-2s, arrived on the N&W. [4] [7] In ...
Spencer train repair shop Aerial view of the shops during operation Inspecting a diesel locomotive Men working on a smoke box Employees of the woodworking shop. Southern Railway officially opened the shops on October 19, 1896. [3] In 1905 a back shop was opened in Spencer, enabling the facility to overhaul 10 to 15 locomotives at one time.
Athearn also produced trains for the short-lived Cox Models brand of electric train sets in the 1970s. Many of these products were pre-existing items from the Athearn catalog repackaged with Cox branding. [5] Freight cars packaged with train sets sold by Atlas Model Railroad Co. in the 1970s also came from Athearn. [1]