For all of You Train Lovers
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Portland Flood of 1894
Curiousyellow71
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4-8-8-4 "big boy" in Omaha 10 days ago. Watched it come in. Only one running of the 8 left of the original 25 .
YY1
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Unfortunately the PRR only applied that streamlining to a small handful of their K4 Pacific's.
IIRC it was four.
The K4, however was their bread and butter passenger engine, lasting later than when most roads developed 4-6-4 and 4-8-4 passenger engines.
IIRC they had 475 of that single class, more than the entire fleet of some railroads.
The successor was planned to be the T1(also pictured in this thread) with the unusual wheel configuration of 4-4-4-4. It was a duplex drive engine using two sets of power cylinders (most have only 1 set except heavy, slow freight Mallet articulated types). Unfortunately the T1 was too powerful for it's own good and had problems with traction. Only 50 T1's were built.
Unfortunately the PRR only applied that streamlining to a small handful of their K4 Pacific's.
IIRC it was four.
The K4, however was their bread and butter passenger engine, lasting later than when most roads developed 4-6-4 and 4-8-4 passenger engines.
IIRC they had 475 of that single class, more than the entire fleet of some railroads.
The successor was planned to be the T1(also pictured in this thread) with the unusual wheel configuration of 4-4-4-4. It was a duplex drive engine using two sets of power cylinders (most have only 1 set except heavy, slow freight Mallet articulated types). Unfortunately the T1 was too powerful for it's own good and had problems with traction. Only 50 T1's were built.
Slap Stick
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The Pennsy solved the traction problems in production.
A replica is being built to beat the steam loco speed record.
A replica is being built to beat the steam loco speed record.
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