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    LNER A4 60025 Falcon 4484
     
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    Pine Bluff built GS-8 Class “Golden State” 4-8-4 #4485
    Originally built for Cotton Belt as SSW L-1 Class #815
     
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    Steam locomotive Black Five 4487 is heading to Bath.

    The Black Five 4487 locomotive left London Victoria shortly before 9am and is expected to arrive at Bath Spa railway station at 1.21pm.
     
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    Atago 4488 PAL-88S Digital Hand-Held "Pocket" Propylene Glycol Refractometer PAL Series, 0.0 to 90.0% Measurement Range, now with Near Field Communication
     
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    LNER CLASS A4 4489 DOMINION OF CANADA
     
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    Locomotive, Diesel 4490

    Locomotive 4490 has heritage significance as one of the 44 class of locomotives, which defined mainline diesel power on the New South Wales Government Railways for over 25 years. Streamlined, with a four-cycle engine, cabs at both ends with all axles powered, these features were embodied in the design that became the standard. Built in unprecedented numbers for diesel locomotive construction, the 44 class contract demonstrated the maturity and capability of local manufacturer A.E.Goodwin to successfully enter this specialised industry sector. The Goodwin-ALCo 44 class ushered in the era of diesel-electric motive power in New South Wales, of which 4490 was one of the last built. Locomotive 4490 is part of the last batch of 40 units of this class that were built and which differed from earlier deliveries of the 44 Class, and which came to define the more 'typical' 44 class layout.
     
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    600122 Commonwealth of Australia No: 4491
     
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    A4 NO. 4492 DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND - NO. 4492
    Region LNER Cylinder Size 18.5" x 26"
    Built Max Boiler Pressure 250 psi
    Total Built of Class 35 Fire Grate 41.2 sq ft
    Designer Sir Nigel Gresley Tractive Effort 35,455 ibf at 85% boiler pressure
    Built at Doncaster Tender Water Capacity 5000 gallons
    Classification 8P 6F Tender Coal Capacity 8 tons
    Wheel Arrangement 4-6-2 Entered Service
    Total Length 70' Shed Allocation
    Working Order Weight 167 tons Withdrawn
    Driving Wheel Diameter 6' 8" Total Mileage
    Valve Gear Walschaerts Current Owner Privately owned
    Number of Cylinders 3 Last Major Overhaul 2007
     
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    LNER 4493 New Southgate circa. 1946
     
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    4494. This type of locomotive was designed as aid to European railways with mostly devastated rail tracks during the WW2.
    The locomotive was produced by the factory Vulcan in the USA in 1943, serial nr. 4494.
     
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    LNER No. 4495 Golden Fleece
     
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    Built for the London & North Eastern Railway in 1937, this locomotive was originally numbered 4496 and named Golden Shuttle.
    It was renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower after World War II and renumbered 8 on 23 November 1946, under Edward Thompson's LNER 1946 renumbering scheme. After nationalisation in 1948, British Railways renumbered it 60008 on 29 October 1948.
    It was retired from service in 1963 and was moved to the National Railroad Museum in Ashwaubenon, a suburb of Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, where it is currently on display.
    It returned to England in 2012 for display at the National Railway Museum in York, when all surviving A4s were reunited.
    It returned to Green Bay in 2014.
     
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    LNER 60031 (Previously 4497) - Golden Plover
     
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    4498 Sir Nigel Gresley (very pleased he had renewed his AA membership:emoticon-0103-cool:)
     
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    Transit Toronto No. 4499 (197506)
     
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    Name: B&O No. 4500

    Railroad of Record: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

    Type of Locomotive: 2-8-2 A (light), Mikado

    Other Number: B&O No. 300

    Class: Q-3

    Date Built: July 1918
     
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    Southern 4501
     
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    Missouri Pacific #4502
    RS-3 Diesel Electric Heavy Freight
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    American Locomotive Company
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    #4502 is one of twelve RS-3s Missouri Pacific bought from ALCO in early 1955. It weighs 229,000 pounds and is 55' 11" long. The engine was sold in 1975 and used as a short line freight engine and later as a switcher. #4502 ALCO RS-3 had a max speed of 65 mph; built by ALCO f
     
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    Canadian Pacific 4503
     
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