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Numbers. 229; renum. 1950 in 1891; renum. 2800 in 1901; renum. 2925 in 1906. Nicknames. Mastodon. First run. April 1882. Scrapped. June 29, 1935, Brooklyn shops, Portland, Oregon. Mastodon was the unofficial name of the Central Pacific Railroad 's number 229, the world's first successful 4-8-0 steam locomotive.
The nickname Mastodon is often mistakenly used to describe the 4-8-0 wheel arrangement and was derived from the unofficial name of the first 4-8-0 locomotive of the Central Pacific Railroad in the United States, the wood-fired CPR no. 229, which was designed and built in 1882 by the railroad's master mechanic, Andrew Jackson (A.J.) Stevens, at ...
Disposition. On static display. Norfolk and Western 433 is a preserved class M 4-8-0 "Mastodon" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company 's Richmond Locomotive Works in January 1907 for the Norfolk and Western Railway. It was one of 125 M Class engines in operation on the N&W for around 50 years.
4-10-0. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels. Central Pacific Railroad 's El Gobernador, built in 1883, was the only locomotive with this wheel arrangement to operate in the United States.
In 1906, six NGR Class B 4-8-0 Mastodon locomotives, designed by D.A. Hendrie, NGR Locomotive Superintendent from 1903 to 1910, were modified to a 4-8-2 wheel arrangement by having trailing bissel trucks added below their cabs to improve their stability when hauling fast passenger trains.
No. 475 is the 101st member of 125 M class steam locomotives built for N&W in 1906–07, rolling out of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1906 at a cost of $15,179.90. [2][3][4] It was originally equipped with Stephenson valve gear and a 6-A type tender, which holds 10 short tons (9,100 kg; 20,000 lb) of coal and 6,000 US gallons (23,000 L ...
Maximum speed. 35 km/h (22 mph) Power output. 382 hp (285 kW) Cockerill's Semmering locomotive from which the Mastodon project of the Giovi took inspiration. The Mastodonte dei Giovi was a special double steam locomotive built specifically for use on the difficult Apennine stretch of the new Turin - Genoa railway line, inaugurated in 1853.
The South African Railways Class 8E 4-8-0 of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre- Union era in the Cape of Good Hope . In 1903, at the same time that the Cape Government Railways ordered its second batch of 38 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotives, four additional experimental locomotives of the same class were ordered, built to ...