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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-6-4 locomotive has two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. ... Their 2-6-4 model was based on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s K4 class pacific, even though this was a 4-6-2 rather than a 2-6-4. References
2-6-6-4: 4'-8½" N&W: Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, VA: display: N&W #340, 1943: status Sole surviving 2-6-6-4. Operated in the Norfolk Southern's steam excursion program from April 1987 to November 1991. Rebuild began in 1992. NS steam program cancelled in December 1994. Now missing several parts and will likely never run again.
17 Ιουν 2006 · One of Seaboard Air Line’s high-speed, twin smokestack 2-6-6-4s – the largest steam engines on the railroad’s roster – charges out of Raleigh, N.C., with a freight in 1941. During the latter half of the 1920s the single expansion articulated locomotive had evolved into a very capable machine. It could lug a heavy train over mountain ...
7 Οκτ 2018 · The basic dimensions for the class include: 2-6-4 wheel arrangement (coupled wheels – 5 foot (ft) 9 inch (in), leading bogie – 3ft 3 1/2in and trailing truck – 3ft 3 1/2 in), LMS type 4C boiler pressed at 200 lbf/in2, three cylinders (one inside, two outside) (16in diameter and 26in stroke), total weight came in at 92.25 long tons and a ...
20 Φεβ 2020 · Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 Class A type steam locomotive pulls an excursion train in 1988. Jim Wrinn. 2-6-6-4. •YEARS BUILT: 1934 to 1950. •MANUFACTURERS: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Norfolk & Western. •OPERATED ON: Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Seaboard Air Line, Baltimore & Ohio, and Norfolk & Western. •NAME: Norfolk & Western referred to ...
One of the most striking features about Russian engines is their unusual height. They are 17 ft from rail to chimney top. The biggest British engines are 13 ft 6 in high. This photograph shows a standard 2- 6- 2 express locomotive, built for the Russian 5ft gauge. RUSSIAN steam locomotive construction began in 1833 and suddenly finished in 1956 ...
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-6-4 locomotive has two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. This arrangement is commonly called Adriatic. With only a few known exceptions, the Adriatic wheel arrangement was usually used on tank locomotives, for which various suffixes to indicate the type of tank would be added to the ...
