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6 days ago · Water cap. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class [a] is a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by William Stanier. They were an enlarged and improved version of his previous design, the LMS Princess Royal Class, and on test were the most powerful steam locomotives ever used in Britain at 2,511 dbhp. [1]
3 days ago · Railroad - Track, Locomotives, Infrastructure: With the 20th century the railroad reached maturity. Railroad building continued on a fairly extensive scale in some parts of the world, notably in Canada, China, the Soviet Union, and Africa. But in most of the more developed countries construction tapered off until the second half of the century. Then it was revived, first by the demand for new urban transit railroads or the expansion of existing systems and, from 1970 onward, by the creation ...
3 days ago · The massive steam locomotive is scheduled to arrive at the Morgan Depot (98 Commercial St., in Morgan) from Evanston, Wyoming, at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, marking its first trip back to Utah since 2019. It'll remain in Morgan briefly before it departs for Salt Lake Central Station (340 S. 600 West, in Salt Lake City) at noon, according to the ...
5 days ago · X1 was built in 1950 by the Vulcan Foundry Limited, England, the first of 32 ordered by the Tasmanian Government Railways. On 13 September 1950, locomotives X1 and X2 entered service in Tasmania, becoming Australia’s first mainline, diesel-electric locomotives. The final 12 X class were built at English Electric’s Dick Kerr Works.
3 days ago · One of the biggest and most powerful steam locomotives in history has returned to life: Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014. Big Boy weighs in at 600 tons, is 132 feet long, and can move at up to 80 miles per hour while pulling a fully loaded freight train with the force of about 7,000 hp. Union Pacific introduced the first of 25 of these steam ...
5 days ago · Posts: 2726. Location: Salt Lake City, Utah. This past weekend, I was in the area, and decided to search for the remains of Missouri Pacific 124 in Dupo, Illinois. This was a 2-8-0 that the MOPAC wanted to donate to the city. Dupo is located across the river and south of St. Louis, and was the location of large MOPAC yard, still in use by the UP.
3 days ago · Railroad - Track, Locomotives, History: The modern railroad rail has a flat bottom, and its cross section is much like an inverted T. An English engineer, Charles Vignoles, is credited with the invention of this design in the 1830s. A similar design also was developed by Robert L. Stevens, president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in the United States. Present-day rail is, in appearance, very similar to the early designs of Vignoles and Stevens. Actually, however, it is a highly refined ...
