2 8 4 Locomotive. Grand Trunk Western 484 6325 Steam by Avalanch11 on DeviantArt Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: (1′D)D(D2′) French classification: 140+040+042 Turkish classification: 45+44+46 Swiss classification: 4/5+4/4+4/6 Surviving Examples of 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Locomotives in the USA
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Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: (1′D)D(D2′) French classification: 140+040+042 Turkish classification: 45+44+46 Swiss classification: 4/5+4/4+4/6 The prototype locomotive then successfully demonstrated on several more railroads, and Lima got orders from Boston & Maine, Illinois Central, and Missouri Pacific.
Three Nicholson thermic syphons in the firebox and two in the combustion chamber contributed 256 sq ft (23.8 sq m) to direct heating surface area. Their reliability and efficiency led to adoption by an impressive array of nineteen different railroads, with the Erie Railroad holding the record for. The 2-8-4 locomotives not only heralded a novel design but also garnered a laudatory classification - Class A-1 - on the Illinois Central, where they remained operational through the mid-1950s
Former RDG 484 steam 2102 at Brookville, PA, … Flickr. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built.It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal.But the firebed was too large for the available draft and. Their reliability and efficiency led to adoption by an impressive array of nineteen different railroads, with the Erie Railroad holding the record for.
2884 "Yellowstone" Steam Photos, History in 2022. The Yellowstone Type steam locomotive design, of the 2-8-8-4 wheel arrangement and an articulated design featured many of the peak technological advances of the motive power and being developed in the late 1920s had an extremely short lifespan, as some Yellowstones were barely 10 years of age before being retired! This new 2-8-4 locomotive was sent to the Boston & Albany Railroad by Lima in the early spring of 1925 for tests on that railroad