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This was the standard heavy switcher locomotive of the USRA types, and had an 0-8-0 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or "D" in UIC classification. A total of 175 locomotives were built under USRA control; these were sent to the following railroads:
Whaleback tender built for the Kahului Railroad in 1928. A form peculiar to oil-burning engines was the "whaleback" tender (also sometimes called a "turtle-back" or "loaf" tender). This was a roughly half-cylindrical form with the rounded side up; the forward portion of the tank held the oil, while the remainder held the water.
A total of 1,502 S-2s were built from August 1940 to June 1950; 797 S-4s were built from June 1949 to August 1957. The S-4 was first produced in Canada, with ALCO production beginning in June 1949. The S-2 and S-4 were designed as rail yard switchers, meant to replace older, less efficient, and more demanding steam switchers.
A switcher may also be called a yard pilot, switch engine, or yard goat. The term can also be used to describe the workers operating these engines or engaged in directing shunting operations. Switching locomotives may be purpose-built engines, but may also be downgraded main-line engines, or simply main-line engines assigned to switching.
It is one of several "stock" switchers equipped with a slope-backed tender. During the first nineteen years of its existence, the engine worked at the Baldwin Locomotive Works plant in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Painted in Baldwin's standard olive green with aluminum trim and lettering livery, the engine labored hauling raw materials and ...
3 Road switchers. 4 Transfer units. 5 Cab units. 6 See also. ... Model designation Build year ... 3 B-B VO 900 hp (671 kW) Pre VO-600 1939 2
A World War II print advertisement for Baldwin (Whitcomb) "Little Giant" switcher locomotives.. The Geo D. Whitcomb Company was founded by George Dexter Whitcomb (1834–1914), of Chicago, Illinois, who started a modest machine shop in 1878, and began the manufacture of coal mining machinery, laying the foundation for the concern that became known as The Whitcomb Locomotive Company.
The Fate-Root-Heath patent application filed in 1925 shows a far more conventional 4-speed transmission and reverse gears driving the jackshaft and final chain drive to the 2 driving axles. [ 5 ] All early Plymouth locomotives were powered by gasoline -burning internal combustion engines , but in 1927 the first diesel was produced.