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  2. Norfolk and Western 2050 - Wikipedia

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    Norfolk and Western 2050 is a Y3a class 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). The locomotive primarily helped haul the N&W's freight and coal trains, but by the end of the 1950s, it was relegated as a hump yard ...

  3. List of Norfolk and Western Railway locomotives - Wikipedia

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    Norfolk & Western Railway locomotives: LC-1 (1-B+B-1)+(1-B+B-1) E1 to E24 renumbered 2500A&B to 2511A&B (not in order) Baldwin & Westinghouse: 1914–1915: 12: 0: 1950: 3,211 hp (2.39 MW) LC-2 (1-D-1)+(1-D-1) 2512 to 2515: Alco & Westinghouse: 1924: 4: 0: 1950: 4,750 hp (3.54 MW) Former Virginian Railway locomotives (acquired 1959) EL-3A: 1-D-1 ...

  4. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-21st century, around the year 2050, a Third World War will take place, between the United States, the "Polish Bloc", the UK, India, and China on one side, and Turkey and Japan on the other, with Germany and France entering the war in its late stages on the side of Turkey and Japan. According to Friedman, "I can’t possibly know the ...

  5. Norfolk and Western Y3 and Y3a classes - Wikipedia

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    [18] [20] The UP assigned their five 2-8-8-2's to operate around Green River and Rock Springs, Wyoming, and while they were shown to be successful in stop gap purposes, they were quickly deemed surplus, since the UP's 4-6-6-4 "Challengers" and 4-8-8-4 "Big Boys" were more powerful and reliable. [18] [19] Nos. 3670-3674 were all scrapped in 1948 ...

  6. Norfolk and Western 2156 - Wikipedia

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    Norfolk and Western 2156 is a preserved Y6a class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive. The Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) built it in 1942 at its own Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as the second member of the N&W's Y6a class. No. 2156 and its class are considered to be the world's strongest-pulling extant steam locomotive to ever be built.

  7. GWR 5101 Class - Wikipedia

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    The 5101 Class were medium-sized tank engines used for suburban and local passenger services all over the Great Western Railway system. The class was an updated version, by Collett , of Churchward 's 1903 3100/5100 Class .

  8. List of Peckett and Sons railway locomotives - Wikipedia

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    Constructed for the Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway, then worked for the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway, the Great Western Railway (No. 1378), sold to the Gwendraeth Valleys Railway (No. 2) in 1911, back to GWR in 1923, but not allocated a number, as sold to the Kidwelly Tinplate Company the same year [16] [17] 412-420: SWTE 0 ...

  9. List of LMS locomotives as of 31 December 1947 - Wikipedia

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    Like the LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T built at the same time, they had a hopper bunker and absence of plating ahead of the cylinders. They were based on the LMS Fowler 2-6-4T by Sir Henry Fowler. In December 1962 locomotive No.50 received a boiler from one of the ex-NCC 2-6-0 tender locomotives, the boiler and firebox being overhauled and repaired at Derby.