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    articulated locomotives, a non-articulated locomotive is referred to as a straight or rigid locomotive. The major types of articulated locomotive are: The...
    7 KB (902 words) - 03:34, 27 July 2024
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    is a classification method for steam locomotives, and some internal combustion locomotives and electric locomotives, by wheel arrangement. It was devised...
    31 KB (1,780 words) - 05:44, 18 August 2024
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    locomotive is a type of compound articulated steam locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919). The front of the locomotive...
    28 KB (3,639 words) - 12:38, 16 July 2024
  • However, these locomotives were never built, except for four triplex locomotives in the United States and one quadruplex locomotive in Belgium. The names...
    14 KB (1,661 words) - 05:18, 9 May 2024
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    constructed locomotives entirely in their own shops. Companies manufacturing locomotives in the US included Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Company...
    146 KB (17,879 words) - 10:12, 22 August 2024
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    A Fairlie locomotive is a type of articulated steam locomotive that has the driving wheels on bogies. The locomotive may be double-ended (a double Fairlie)...
    31 KB (3,705 words) - 18:14, 4 August 2024
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    Bogie (redirect from Articulated bogie)
    trucks). Articulated locomotives (e.g. Fairlie, Garratt or Mallet locomotives) have power bogies similar to those on diesel and electric locomotives. A rollbock...
    22 KB (2,256 words) - 00:09, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Union Pacific Big Boy
    Pacific Big Boy is a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944...
    41 KB (3,205 words) - 23:28, 28 August 2024
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    the US. An articulated locomotive with no fixed wheels (i.e. excluding the Mallet locomotive but including other articulated steam locomotives, as well...
    4 KB (457 words) - 13:15, 10 June 2024
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    A Garratt locomotive is a type of articulated steam locomotive invented by British engineer Herbert William Garratt that is articulated into three parts...
    102 KB (8,583 words) - 16:21, 21 August 2024
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    The Shay locomotive is a geared steam locomotive that originated and was primarily used in North America. The locomotives were built to the patents of...
    24 KB (3,409 words) - 05:12, 21 July 2024
  • drive three sets of driving wheels. Any such locomotive will inevitably be articulated. All triplex locomotives built were of the Mallet type, but with an...
    8 KB (1,129 words) - 20:19, 17 July 2024
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    4-8-8-4 (category 4-8-8-4 locomotives)
    is refined to (2′D)D2′ for simple articulated locomotives. A similar wheel arrangement exists for Garratt locomotives, but is referred to as 4-8-0+0-8-4...
    4 KB (404 words) - 09:36, 9 May 2024
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    locomotive was sometimes applied to articulated locomotives in general. The main disadvantage of the two-cylinder locomotives is the heavy hammer blow on the...
    16 KB (2,184 words) - 14:05, 20 August 2024
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    from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains. Steam locomotives were sometimes articulated so the driving wheels could pivot around corners. In a broader...
    7 KB (743 words) - 00:30, 20 February 2024
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    for all of the PRR's steam locomotives, and — with the exception of the final type bought (the E44) — all electric locomotives also used this scheme. Class...
    28 KB (1,693 words) - 05:32, 18 August 2024
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    2-6-6-6 (category Freight locomotives)
    (1'C)C3' for simple articulated locomotives. Two classes of 2-6-6-6 locomotives were built: the sixty H-8 "Allegheny" class locomotives for the Chesapeake...
    8 KB (1,083 words) - 01:29, 2 July 2024
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    Pacific Challengers are a type of simple articulated 4-6-6-4 steam locomotive built by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1936 to 1944 and operated...
    16 KB (1,122 words) - 11:04, 25 July 2024
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    of these locomotive types have an articulated body, which leads some railfans to nickname them "false crocodiles". Very similar locomotives were used...
    14 KB (1,244 words) - 00:58, 4 August 2024
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    Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 (category Simple articulated locomotives)
    and Ohio class H-8 was a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio between 1941 and 1948...
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