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The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built. It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal.
Alien is a role-playing game set in space in the far future that has two modes: . Campaign: The usual role-playing milieu, where the gamemaster creates a "world" and a plot, then describes a situation or story hook to the players, who then indicate how their player characters react.
Category. : 2-8-4 locomotives. Front of locomotive at left. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2-8-4 locomotives. Locomotives classified 2-8-4 under the Whyte notation of locomotive axle arrangements. The equivalent UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements is 1D2 or 1'D2'.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Star Frontiers is a space opera role-playing game that is set near the center of a spiral galaxy (the setting does not specify whether the galaxy is our own Milky Way).A previously undiscovered quirk of the laws of physics allows starships to jump to "The Void", a hyperspatial realm that greatly shortens the travel times between inhabited worlds, once they reach 1% of the speed of light.
A clickable map of the nearby circa one-sixth outer sector of the galaxy, thus clearly showing the Local Arm (Orion Arm) and neighboring arms - as well as the Great Orion Nebula (as a very luminous feature of the less bright Orion molecular cloud complex) and broad-clouds North America Nebula (and Pelican Nebula) which is an intrinsic part of the Radcliffe wave.
The National Sports Center for the Disabled ( NSCD) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization [ 1] that began in 1970 providing ski lessons for children with amputations. Today, the NSCD is one of the largest therapeutic recreation organizations in the world, serving more than 3,000 children and adults with disabilities. [ 2]
The Erie Matt H. Shay 2-8-8-8-2 Baldwin Erie P1 5016 Triplex - Shown in Exeter, PA The only 2-8-8-8-4 triplex locomotive ever built. A triplex locomotive was a steam locomotive that divided the driving force on its wheels by using three pairs of cylinders to drive three sets of driving wheels. Any such locomotive will inevitably be articulated.