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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.
Timken 1111, also named the Timken Four Aces, was a 4-8-4 steam locomotive built in 1930 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) as a demonstration unit for new roller bearings produced by the Timken Roller Bearing Company. It was the first locomotive built with all sealed roller bearings rather than plain bearings or a
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
Railway Number and name Type or Class Builder Works Number Built Wheels Location Object Number Image S&D: Locomotion No. 1: R Stephenson: 3 1825 0-4-0
[2] [3] When the train was running at 58 mph (93 km/h) near the Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, Virginia, two of the passenger cars struck a faulty switch on the main line derailing them and the other 12 passenger cars with them. [4] The locomotive, first six cars, and last two cars stayed on the rails undamaged.
In the late 1930s, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) K2 and K2a 4-8-2 "Mountains" could not handle the rising passenger traffic after the Great Depression abated, so the N&W opted for a more powerful and fancy-looking passenger steam locomotive. [3] [4] The N&W mechanical department team originally considered a class N 4-8-4 type, but ...
DB DMU 611 508 in Nuremberg. Class 611, successor to the DB Class 610, was developed using tilting systems from German military technology in favour of the Hydraulic Fiat systems used by its predecessor [citation needed] Because of environmental concerns over the potential hazards of leaking hydraulic fluid an electrically actuated option based on equipment used to keep the guns of tanks level ...
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.