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Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad No. 643 is the sole survivor of the class H-1 2-10-4 "Texas type" steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944 for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, primarily used for hauling heavy mainline freight trains in Pennsylvania and Ohio, until retirement in 1952.
Most powerful steam locomotive ever static tested. PRR S1: Pennsylvania Railroad: 6100 Altoona Works: 1939 Steam 6-4-4-6: 487 tonnes (537 short tons) 76,403 pounds-force (340 kN) 7,200 horsepower (5,369 kW) Fast passenger steam locomotive; the magazine Popular Mechanics cites 1941 a speed of 133.4 mph (214.7 km/h) PRR S2: Pennsylvania Railroad ...
This was the standard heavy switcher locomotive of the USRA types, and had an 0-8-0 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or "D" in UIC classification. A total of 175 locomotives were built under USRA control; these were sent to the following railroads:
Louisiana Steam Train Association, Jefferson, LA: Operational. Last surviving locomotive built in Louisiana. Asserted to be the only operating steam locomotive in Louisiana. MD-01 Chesapeake and Ohio 1309: 2-6-6-2: 1949 built Western Maryland Scenic Railroad: Last-built of BLW's Class 1 mainline locomotives, it pulled coal trains.
On August 25, 2009, Team Inspiration of the British Steam Car Challenge broke the long-standing record for a steam vehicle set by a Stanley Steamer in 1906, setting a new speed record of 139.843 mph (225.055 km/h) over a measured mile at Edwards Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert of California.
Pennsylvania Railroad class S1; Pennsylvania Railroad class S2; Pennsylvania Railroad class T1; Pennsylvania Railroad E6 class; Pennsylvania Railroad I1 class; Pennsylvania Railroad L1 class; Pennsylvania Railroad no. 1320; Pittsburgh and Lake Erie class A-2a; Pennsylvania Railroad class B6; Pennsylvania Railroad class D1; Pennsylvania Railroad ...
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999 is a 4-4-0 “American” type steam locomotive built for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1893, which was intended to haul the road's Empire State Express train service. It was built for high speed and is alleged to be the first steam locomotive in the world to travel over 100 ...
The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the " Big Four ". In addition, BR built 2,537 steam locomotives in the period 1948–1960, 1,538 to pre-nationalisation designs and 999 to its own standard designs.