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2-6-0. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-6-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels. This arrangement is commonly called a Mogul. [ 1]
The 1016 is a T-6 type switcher engine. This and ALCO sister 151 (ex Western Maryland Railway S-6) provide daily service in Middletown. Two original Alco RS-2's that were delivered to the Nevada Northern Railway are still in operation. ALCO-Cooke 2-8-0 #18, built in 1920, survives in passenger service on the Arcade & Attica Railroad in Arcade ...
Products. Steam locomotives and rolling stock. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives based in Paterson, in Passaic County, New Jersey, in the United States. Between its founding in 1832 and its acquisition in 1905, the company built more than 6,000 steam locomotives for railroads around the world.
2-6-6-0. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, 2-6-6-0 is a locomotive with one pair of unpowered leading wheels, followed by two sets of three pairs of powered driving wheels and no trailing wheels. The wheel arrangement was principally used on Mallet-type articulated locomotives.
Brooks Locomotive Works. Brooks s/n 3687, Soo Line 2645 preserved at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum, North Freedom, WI. Builder's plate from Brooks Locomotive Works, 1894. The Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured railroad steam locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901.
Built as a 2-6-0. [28] Originally, North Western Coal and Navigation Company #10. NWC&N was sold to the Alberta Railway & Coal Co. in 1891. Locomotive reduced to an 0-6-0, most likely in 1893 to accommodate dual gauge coupler fixtures. [29] Restored to a 2-6-0 and sold to the Columbia and Western Railway in 1896 (C&W #2).
Overview. The first locomotives of the 2-6-6-2 wheel arrangement were built in 1906 by the Great Northern Railway to permit longer trains on their heavily graded line over the Cascade Mountains. [ 5] They were a refinement of the first North American Mallets, 0-6-6-0 engines built for the Baltimore & Ohio in 1904, with leading and trailing ...
Twenty Hudswell-Clarke and Barclay 0-6-0T, seven Alco 2-6-2T and 26 Baldwin 4-6-0T engines saw service until 1957. Examples of British equipment A pair of trench railway tractors in the Minico yard of the Australian 17th Light Railway Operating Company during the Battle of Passchendaele.