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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.
- Railroads That Used 4-6-0 Locomotives in Other Countries
4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler; 4-6-2 Pacific; 4-6-4 Hudson; 4-6-6; 8...
- Railroads That Used 4-6-0 Locomotives in Other Countries
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.
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.
Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) 2355 built in 1912. A notable American ten-wheeler is the Illinois Central Railroad's No. 382, the locomotive driven by Casey Jones in a train wreck Vaughan, Mississippi, on April 30, 1900, that killed him instantly. But after an eventful career with 6 accidents, she was scrapped in July 1935 at the age of 37, the ...
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 ...
4-6-0 TEN-WHEELER. A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles in a leading truck and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the absence of trailing wheels.
26 Οκτ 2002 · Details of each steam engine including the road number, name, type, driving wheel size in inches, builder, date constructed, weight, effort in horsepower, 1891 renumber, and date scrapped.
