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Stockton and Darlington Railway locomotive no. 2 [5] or no. 5 [2] 19 March 1828: Locomotive United Kingdom: Simpasture, near Shildon, England: 1: 1 [2] [5] Stockton and Darlington Railway Locomotion No. 1: 1 July 1828: Locomotive United Kingdom: Aycliffe Lane, Heighington, England: 1 [2] SS Helen McGregor: 24 February 1830: Marine (civilian ...
Diagram of Priestman oil engine from The Steam engine and gas and oil engines (1900) by John Perry Petrol–electric Weitzer railmotor, first 1903, series 1906. The earliest recorded example of the use of an internal combustion engine in a railway locomotive is the prototype designed by William Dent Priestman, which was examined by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin in 1888 who described it as ...
The aftermath of a boiler explosion at Strømmen station near Oslo, Norway, 22 December 1888. [1] One locomotive was thrown into the air and landed on the roof of another; the crews of both escaped without injury [2] A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions.
During World War II, large numbers of 2-8-2 locomotives were acquired from the United States and Canada and classified AWD and CWD. The Baldwin Locomotive Works adapted the USATC S160 Class locomotive design for India, and it became class AWC. [37] Sixty broad-gauge locomotives were built in 1944 as part of an order of 180 S160 engines.
The EMD DDA40X is a 6,600 hp (4,943 kW) D-D locomotive, built by EMD from 1969 to 1971 exclusively for the Union Pacific Railroad. [1] It is the most powerful diesel–electric locomotive model ever built on a single frame, having two 16-645E3A diesel prime movers. [2]
ABP News is an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air television news channel owned by ABP Group. Initially launched as Star News in 1998, it was later acquired by the Bengali media group Anand Bazar Patrika (ABP). It won the Best Hindi News Channel award [1] in the 21st edition of the Indian Television Academy Awards in 2022.
ABP Ganga is a 24-hour Indian regional Hindi-language news channel for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It is owned by ABP Group . The channel was launched on 15 April 2019.
To establish the "largest" category, several factors take precedence: overall weight, which gives traction over driving axles; size (length and height of engine itself); and power, which may be in terms of raw horsepower, tractive effort, available power at axles (shaft horsepower) or, in the case of steam locomotives, available steam on a ...