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The first Czechoslovakian 1’D2’t-h2 (2-8-4) tank locomotive was derived from the CSD Class 455.1 1’D-h2 (2-8-0) tender locomotive, with water tanks, a coal bunker and a trailing bogie added. Apart from changing the drive from the second to the third coupled axle and increasing the superheating surface of the boiler, these handsome tank ...
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.
Category. : 2-8-4 locomotives. 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'.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 's K-4 class were a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives purchased during and shortly after World War II. [1] Unlike many other railroads in the United States, the C&O chose to nickname this class "Kanawha", after the river in West Virginia, rather than "Berkshire", after the region in New England .
July 31, 1994. Pere Marquette 1225 is a class "N-1" 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive built in October 1941 for the Pere Marquette Railway (PM) by Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) in Lima, Ohio. No. 1225 is one of two surviving Pere Marquette 2-8-4 locomotives, the other being 1223, which was on display at the Tri-Cities Historical Society ...
2-8-8-8-4. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-8-8-8-4 has two leading wheels, three sets of eight driving wheels, and four trailing wheels . The equivalent UIC classification is to be refined to (1'D)D (D2') for these engines. Only one 2-8-8-8-4 was ever built, a Mallet -type for the Virginian Railway in ...
The Erie Matt H. Shay 2-8-8-8-2. 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. All triplex locomotives built were of the Mallet ...
Jared Shuster (1-2) allowed both runs in the 11th and took the loss as Chicago fell a season-worst 41 games below .500 (26-67). Chicago's Nicky Lopez looped a double in the eighth for his second ...