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Tender locomotives. During the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, the 4-6-0 was constructed in large numbers for passenger and mixed traffic service.
4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" Locomotives in the USA. The 4-6-0 wheel arrangement was a natural progression from the 4-4-0 (American type) when railroads desired a locomotive with more power. The first example was built in 1847 by the Norris Brothers for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
Central Pacific Railroad 's El Gobernador, built in 1883, was the only locomotive with this wheel arrangement to operate in the United States.
Sierra Railway #3 on the P&AC. No. 3 is a 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler steam locomotive built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey. Construction of the locomotive was completed on March 26, 1891, and was given Rogers construction number 4493. It has 17 in × 24 in (43 cm × 61 cm) cylinders, 56-inch (140 cm) driving wheels ...
24 Οκτ 2024 · Like the Consolidation, the 4-6-0 "Ten-wheeler" was another locomotive design that helped displace the common 4-4-0. The Ten-wheeler is perhaps the only design to derive its name simply from the number of wheels it carries (ten) with a 4-6-0 arrangement.
2 Απρ 2019 · Engines named for oceans included Atlantic, Pacific, and the Arctic. The Arctic was actually named twice. The first Arctic was a powerful Mason ten wheeler, which CP management renamed for Senator John Conness while it was being delivered to California.
Although the Baltimore and Ohio had procured a locomotive with a 4-8-0 wheel arrangement in 1855 with the “Centipede”, the Central Pacific “Mastodon” was one of the first successful locomotives with this wheel arrangement. Completed in 1882, it was the heaviest locomotive in the world at the time.
