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unusual facts about steam locomotive


Beattock Summit

Steam locomotives frequently required banking assistance in getting their heavy trains up the incline, particularly in the northbound direction, which had steeper gradients.


Abercynon

The village was the terminus of the world's first steam railway journey when on 21 February 1804 the inventor Richard Trevithick drove a steam locomotive hauling both iron and passengers travelled from the Penydarren ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil to the basin of the Glamorganshire Canal at Abercynon.

ATSF 3460 class

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's 3460 class comprised six 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotives built in 1937 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for service between La Junta, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois, a fairly flat division of the railroad suited for the 4-6-4 type.

Bavarian GtL 4/4

The vehicles, with running numbers 80 and 81, were stabled at Thalkirchen shed on the Isar Valley line (Isartalbahn).

Bavarian Ludwig Railway

The steam locomotive Adler ("eagle") had been supplied with its driver by Stephenson’s company from Newcastle.

Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad

In the late 1980s the railroad also acquired one of the last new 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotives built in China (China Railways JS number 8419, cost $335,000).

Boulton's Siding

In the 1860s, established railway companies were replacing their small 2-2-0 and 0-4-0 steam locomotives with larger, more modern machines.

Chemins de fer et transport automobile

The CFTA Cargo subsidiary still runs the freight railways around Gray and Châtillon-sur-Seine, famous for being the last place where main line steam locomotives operated in France.

Coal mining in the United Kingdom

The development of the steam locomotive by Trevithick early in the 19th century gave added impetus, and coal consumption grew rapidly as the railway network expanded through the Victorian period.

DB Class 10

Up to 1962 they were allocated to Bebra locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw), before being transferred to Bw Kassel where they worked alongside the DRG Class 01.10s until 20 March 1967 heading fast-stopping and express trains to and from Gießen.

DRG Class 99.21

The only example of the German DRG Class 99.21 steam locomotive was built for the Wangerooge Island Railway on Wangerooge, one of the German-owned Friesian islands in the North Sea.

Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden

In 1826, André Koechlin founded the engineering works of Andre Koechlin & Cie in Mulhouse, which made steam engines, turbines, spinning and weaving machinery and, from 1839, steam locomotives too.

Finnieston Crane

Connected to a spur of the Stobcross Railway, the crane's primary purpose was the lifting of heavy machinery – mainly Springburn's then renowned steam locomotives – onto ships for export.

H. Reid

An avid fan of steam locomotives, he helped capture the last days of steam motive power on America's Class I railroads, notably on the Virginian Railway, and ending with the Norfolk and Western in 1960, the last major U.S. railroad to convert from steam.

Heber Valley Historic Railroad

The Heber Valley Historic Railroad has two 1907 Baldwin 2-8-0 Consolidation-type steam locomotives: former Union Pacific No. 618 and ex-Great Western No. 75, although they are both out of service pending completion of their 1,472 day inspections and service.

Iron horse

The Iron Horse term became widely popularized and found frequent use in the century and a half following the competition won by George Stephenson's Rocket in innumerable newsprint articles as well as in various novels.

Jenny Lind locomotive

The Jenny Lind locomotive was the first of a class of ten steam locomotives built in 1847 for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway by E. B. Wilson and Company of Leeds, named after Jenny Lind, who was a famous opera singer of the period.

Johore Wooden Railway

In 1875, the Maharaja of Johore purchased a second-hand Indian steam locomotive, an Indian State Railway Class B 0-4-4T number B27 (number 89 on the Rajputana State Railway) manufactured by Dübs (742/1874), suggesting, while unverified, its use in the JWR.

Kokosing Gap Trail

Here, one can stop for a rest at one of the trail's restroom facilities and take photos of a cosmetically restored 1940s-era ALCO 0-6-0 steam locomotive, tender, flatcar and caboose.

Kylchap

The Kylchap steam locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by French steam engineer André Chapelon, using a second-stage nozzle designed by the Finnish engineer Kyösti Kylälä and known as the Kylälä spreader; thus the name KylChap for this design.

Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway

Having had an eye for high-tech from the outset, the LC&N company's founders decided to try some of the railroad solutions put into place in England around Coalbrookdale, which birthed not only railroads, but both the Steam locomotive, and the fixed cable winch enginess which were used in many steep grades as well as for mining hoists.

Milwaukee Road class F7

The Milwaukee Road's class F7 comprised six (#100–#105) high-speed, streamlined 4-6-4 "Baltic" or "Hudson" type steam locomotives built by ALCO in 1937–38 to haul the Milwaukee's Hiawatha express passenger trains.

Nuremberg Transport Museum

The oldest steam locomotive in Germany still preserved in its original state, the Nordgau (built in 1853)

NYC Niagara

The New York Central Railroad's Niagara was a steam locomotive named after the Niagara River and Falls.

NZR X class

The NZR X class was a pioneering class of eighteen 4-8-2 steam locomotives designed by A. L. Beattie that operated on the national rail network of New Zealand.

Ohai

The Ohai Railway Board Heritage Trust, which had no connection with the Ohai Railway Board, was involved in the restoration of steam locomotives including members of the P and V classes and a railway museum was been established, but the trust has been dissolved.

Pacific 231

The Pacific is a class of steam locomotive designated in Whyte notation as a 4-6-2, with four pilot wheels, six driving wheels, and two trailing wheels.

Patentee locomotive

The Patentee locomotive was a revolutionary 2-2-2 steam locomotive type introduced by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1833, as an enlargement of their 2-2-0 Planet type.

Phoenicia Railroad Station

The railroad is planned to go all the way to Kingston in the future, where it is currently restoring a 2-8-0 steam locomotive.

Pioneer City

Weiss bought a 19th Century-style (it was not actually made in the 19th Century) steam locomotive in Pennsylvania and two paddle-wheel boats built in Miami for the park, as well as refurbished antique fire engines and a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

Primorskaya railway

The railway was served by steam locomotives from the moment of opening and before joining to Oktyabrskaya railway in 1925.

PRR Q1

The Pennsylvania Railroad's class Q1 comprised a single experimental steam locomotive for freight service, #6130, built in March 1942.

PT Industri Kereta Api

Industri Kereta Api Indonesia, abbreviated as INKA, is a Government-owned corporation which was formed on 19 August 1981 as the successor of Balai Yasa Lokomotif Uap (steam locomotive maintenance depot) owned by Perusahaan Jawatan Kereta Api (now PT Kereta Api) in Madiun, East Java, Indonesia.

SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes

The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, are air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid.

Thinktank, Birmingham

Concentrating on Birmingham's transport history, Move It contains all of the vehicles on display in Thinktank, including the LMS Princess Coronation Class steam locomotive, 46235 City of Birmingham, Railton Mobil Special, a Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane hanging from the ceiling, and Birmingham Corporation Tramways tram 395.

Torbay Express

From 2003, Past-Time Rail revived the Torbay Express as a passenger charter steam locomotive service, to run on certain summer Sundays and some Saturdays, from: Bristol Temple Meads via stops at Weston-Super-Mare and Taunton; to Paignton and onwards vis the Dartmouth Steam Railway to Kingswear.

Württemberg B and B2

The Württemberg Class B and Class B2 engines were steam locomotives with the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen) first built in 1868 by the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen ('Esslingen engineering works') in Esslingen in the former Kingdom of Württemberg in southern Germany.


see also

8444

Union Pacific 844, a Union Pacific steam locomotive which was numbered 8444 between 1962-1989

8F

LMS Stanier Class 8F, a 1935 British 2-8-0 heavy freight steam locomotive

Big Bertha

MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker, a large railway banking engine, especially of a 0-10-0 steam locomotive configuration

Blues Train

The four-carriage train, drawn by a steam locomotive, departs from Queenscliff railway station after customers have eaten, running around the southern shoreline of Swan Bay through saltmarsh before puffing up the hill to the Bellarine plateau and travelling through grazing country.

Class 02

DRG Class 02, a class of German, standard steam locomotive with a four-cylinder compound configuration, discontinued in favour of the DRG Class 01.

Class 5MT

Class 5MT is a steam locomotive power classification used by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and British Railways.

Cogenhoe

Brand new equipment was used including a standard gauge steam locomotive made by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. which was kept in a brick engine shed on the side of the Hill, just west of Whiston village.

Crewe, Virginia

It was founded in 1888 as a central location to house steam locomotive repair shops for the Norfolk and Western Railroad (now called Norfolk Southern) which has a rail yard there for east-west trains carrying Appalachian coal to Hampton Roads for export abroad, and the street pattern was laid out at that time.

D53

New South Wales D53 class locomotive, a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotive built for and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia

Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein

On 2 July 1966, museum railway services began on the narrow gauge section of line from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Heiligenberg operated by the Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya, about 35 km south of Bremen, using the steam locomotive Bruchhausen and one coach.

Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C5

The Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C5 were ordered in 1880 by the Finnish State Railways from the German Hanomag factory for the Tampere-Vaasa railway line.

Groudle Glen Railway

In addition to the two steam locomotive being in operation providing a top-and-tail train service (this ensures speedy turnaround and removes the necessity for locomotives to run round their trains at either end of the line), the Easter Bunny is on hand to distribute chocolate eggs at the outer terminus, second only to the Santa Trains these services which operate on Easter Sunday and Monday are the line's busiest and provide a bump start to each summer season.

Gulflander

A10 class steam locomotive 202 (Undergoing restoration to operational condition by Croydon Shire Council)

Hackworth

Timothy Hackworth (1786–1850), steam locomotive mechanical engineer

Industrial design

Raymond Loewy was a prolific American designer who is responsible for the Royal Dutch Shell corporate logo, the original BP logo (in use until 2000), the PRR S1 steam locomotive, the Studebaker Starlight (including the later iconic bulletnose), as well as Schick electric razors, Electrolux refrigerators, short-wave radios, Le Creuset French ovens, and a complete line of modern furniture, among many other items.

Inflexible

LMS Jubilee Class 5727 Inflexible, a steam locomotive constructed in 1936.

Interoceanic Railway of Mexico

A steam locomotive and train appear in the movie The Magnificent Seven, during the scene where Britt joins the band.

J24

NER Class P, a class of steam locomotive also known as the LNER CLass J24

John Blenkinsop

Richard Trevithick of Cornwall had experimented with various models of steam locomotive, and in 1805 his work had culminated in an engine for the Wylam Colliery.

Kylchap

The Kylchap was not the only advanced steam locomotive exhaust: another design, the Lemaître, had some success in France and England; noted Argentinian engineer Livio Dante Porta designed several, the Kylpor, Lempor and Lemprex designs; and several U.S. railroads including the Norfolk & Western used a concentric nozzle known as the waffle iron exhaust.

Ledbury railway station

The single-track Ledbury Tunnel, immediately to the east of the station, was notorious among steam locomotive crews for its bad atmosphere, the result of its unusually narrow bore combined with a steep gradient and a bend at the north end.

Lugcentrokuz

Lugcentrokuz is one of the various companies founded from the existing steam locomotive factory in Luhansk that was built by the German entrepreneur Gustav Hartmann.

Moura railway line

Before the Moura Short Line opened, the largest QR steam locomotive, known as a Garrett, could haul a 750 ton coal load to Gladstone via Rockhampton.

N class

SECR N class, a type of steam locomotive designed in 1914 for use on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR)

New York, Westchester and Boston Railway

Their pantographs were removed and the cars were hauled by a steam locomotive to bring workers from the city of Houston to the shipyards in Pasadena to build liberty ships.

NYC Niagara

This type of intensive maintenance was studied by steam locomotive designers such as Andre Chapelon, Livio Dante Porta, and David Wardale.

Phoenix Peak

of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which started in 1906-07 to design and build steam "locomotive sleds" for hauling logs over ice and snow, probably the earliest successful vehicles of their type.

Port Erin

The outer breakwater, visible at low tide only, was an abandoned project constructed in 1863 using the Port Erin Breakwater Railway and saw the first steam locomotive used on the island; a severe storm of 1884 later destroyed the breakwater and it was never rebuilt.

Preserved main line steam locomotive support in the United Kingdom

In addition to the traditional steam locomotive spares and consumables, spares are also required for the modern electrical equipment required for operation on the modern railway, such as radios, event recorders and signalling / train protection equipment.

PRR L2s

As heavier trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad became a reality, the Pennsylvania Railroad needed a heavier steam locomotive to handle a freight train on the system, so the L2s was demoted to smaller services and eventually retirement, when engines like the J1 and in later years, diesels replaced them too.

Royal Bavarian State Railways

In 1914 the first units of the most powerful Bavarian steam locomotive, the Class Gt 2x4/4 Mallet tank engine (later DRG Class 96.0) entered service.

Royal Scot

LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 Royal Scot, a preserved British steam locomotive of the above class

S69

GER Class S69, a 1911 class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed for passenger work

Saga Domain

In 1853, Russian Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin arrived in Nagasaki harbor, and provided the first demonstration of a steam locomotive to the Japanese.

State Dockyard

In November 1986 a team of apprentices from the Hunter Valley Training Company completed a three year overhaul of steam locomotive 3801 at the dockyard.

Steam Elephant

More recent interpretation is based on research carried out at Beamish Museum for construction of a replica to work there based largely on contemporaneous paintings (one being the earliest known oil of a steam locomotive) and other material from the Museum archives.

Tweetsie Railroad

Tweetsie acquired another coal-fired steam locomotive, USATC S118 Class 2-8-2 #190, the “Yukon Queen” from Alaska’s White Pass and Yukon Route in 1960.

Ty2

PKP class Ty2, a German-made steam locomotive which was used by Polish State Railways

United States Army Steam Locomotive No. 4039

United States Army Steam Locomotive No. 4039, is located in the Whippany section of Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

Wilfrid de Glehn

Louise Creighton a British activist and author and Alfred de Glehn a French steam locomotive designer were sister and brother of Alexander.

Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway

The rolling stock consisted mainly of Motor-Rails and Ruston diesel-powered engines, and a singular Peckett and Sons steam locomotive, No.1327 0-6-0ST of 1913 named Mesozoic.

Würzburg Hauptbahnhof

The northern side of the hall was adorned by an attached stone mosaic of the Eichstätt artist Alois Wünsche-Mitterecker that had a cross-sectional image of a class 44 steam locomotive at its original size.

Wylam

The steam locomotive engineer Timothy Hackworth, who worked with Stephenson, was also born here.

Y10

LNER Class Y10, a class of 0-4-0 geared steam locomotive s built by Sentinel Waggon Works

Yūshūkan

The first floor entrance hall can be entered free of admission, and contains an A6M Zero fighter aircraft and a Class C56 steam locomotive number C56 31 used in Thailand during the post-war period.

Z13

New South Wales Z13 class locomotive, a class of steam locomotive built for and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia

Z25

New South Wales Z25 class locomotive, a class of 2-6-0 wheel arrangement steam locomotive built for and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways