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2. 2-8-8-4 - Wikipedia

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   The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built. It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal. But the ...

3. 2-8-4 - Wikipedia

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   In the motion picture The Polar Express, the "know-it-all" boy identifies the train's locomotive as "a Baldwin 2-8-4 S-3 class" built in 1931, although the actual prototype for the film's locomotive was the Pere Marquette 1225, a Berkshire built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1941.

4. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie class A-2a - Wikipedia

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   In 1948, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) purchased seven 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotives from the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady New York and designated as the class A-2a and assigned road numbers 9400 through 9406. [2] [3] The tenders were built by Lima and weighed in 22 tonnes (22,000,000 g; 22,000 kg ...

5. Nickel Plate Road 759 - Wikipedia

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   No. 759 was one of 80 2-8-4 Berkshire type steam locomotives built for the Nickel Plate between 1934 and 1949 for fast freight duties. [1] The Nickel Plate had 4 sub-classes of 2-8-4s corresponding to which order the locomotive was in, these were designated S through S-3, No. 759, is a member of the third order of 2-8-4s, classified S-2.

6. Chesapeake and Ohio 2716 - Wikipedia

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   Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 2716 is a class "K-4" 2-8-4 "Kanawha" (Berkshire) type steam locomotive built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). While most railroads referred to these 2-8-4 type locomotives as Berkshires , the C&O referred to them as Kanawhas after the Kanawha River , which ...

7. Chesapeake and Ohio 2755 - Wikipedia

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   Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2755 is a standard gauge steam railway locomotive of the 2-8-4 type, called "Berkshire" by most US railroads, but "Kanawha" by the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O). It is one of a total of ninety built by ALCO (which built seventy) and Lima (which built the remaining twenty, including 2755) between 1943 and 1947.