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Two plans for 0-8-0s were suggested in 1907 but would have been too heavy. Needing a special exception to the small engine policy, James Clayton (the draughtsman at Derby) was given a free hand to design the engine, and produced something unlike any other Derby-designed locomotive of the time.
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. [1]: 80 It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,700 times.
A 6-4-4-6 steam locomotive, in the Whyte notation for describing locomotive wheel arrangements, is one with six leading wheels, two sets of four driving wheels, and six trailing wheels. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: 3BB3 (also known as German classification and Italian classification) French classification: 3223
The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S118 Class is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotive.Built to either 3 ft (914 mm), 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge or 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, they were used in at least 24 different countries.
Locomotion No. 1 (originally named Active) is an early steam locomotive that was built in 1825 by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Stephenson and Company. It became the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger-carrying train on a public railway, the Stockton and Darlington ...
Milwaukee Road 261 is a S3 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Schenectady, New York in July 1944 for the Milwaukee Road (MILW). It was used for heavy mainline freight and passenger work until being retired by the MILW in 1956.
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Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive to operate on a common-carrier railroad.It was designed and constructed by Peter Cooper in 1829 to convince owners of the newly formed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) (now CSX) to use steam engines; it was not intended to enter revenue service.