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KCS 4860 Kansas City Southern Railway GE ES44AC at Tonville
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KCS 4860 Kansas City Southern Railway GE ES44AC at Tonville
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Livingstone Railway Museum, Zambia 2011
South African Railways (SAR) 8th Class 4-8-0 1126, Sharp Stewart, Glasgow, UK 4682/1902
1126 was ordered by the Imperial Military Railway which became the Central South African Railways (CSAR).
This became part of SAR in 1910 and the locomotive was sold to the Zambezi Sawmills Railway in 1971.
Here it worked mainline trains and also specials on the Livingstone - Mulobezi line in 1973.
After the government took over the railway, the locomotive remained at Mulobezi shunting fire wood trains and works trains until 1976.
My bad Wooperts I stuffed up and went from 48-- to 46-- two posts ago
If you will accept this turn of phrase in me saying "I will put us back on the tracks" by reverting to 48--'s
SH4862 : Locomotive 143 passes the water tower at Caernarfon railway station
taken 10 years ago, near to Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Great Britain
If you will accept this turn of phrase in me saying "I will put us back on the tracks" by reverting to 48--'s
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SH4862 : Locomotive 143 passes the water tower at Caernarfon railway station
taken 10 years ago, near to Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Great Britain
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Despite the overwhelming success of the Hudson or 4-6-4 type in passenger service, in 1940 the New York Central System still rostered some 380 Pacifics, of which almost half belonged to one of the 16 subclasses of class K-3. Here No. 4863, a member of class K-3k, makes a backup move in the yards of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in this 1936 shot by photographer R. Payne, only a little more than three years before her retirement. No. 4863 was outshopped by ALCo's Schenectady plant in 1917 as No. 6463 of NYC subsidiary CCC&StL (the "Big Four"). Many K-3s were eventually upgraded with the one-piece cast trailing truck, but No. 4863 displays the original type of rivet-fabricated truck.
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Quite possibly the cleanest locomotive Espee owned at that time.
This locomotive was delivered to Louisville & Nashville as GP38-2 4090, the class unit of a ten diesel order in October 1972 which became Seaboard System 4090 then CSX 2600.
Sold to Helm as HLLX 2600, this unit got a fresh coat of Helm maroon and blue then joined the SP roster as 4864 with a simple 'SP' on the hood.
After the UP merger, this Geep returned to Helm and now works as HLCX 3855 wearing a solid maroon dip job.
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PC 4865 Penn Central GG-1 at South Amboy, New Jersey, USA.
1466 / 4866 - CLASS
4866 was built at Swindon in February 1936, and was a particularly strong, free-running member of the class. She was based at Newton Abbot almost all her working life, transferring to Taunton at the very end. Selected for preservation, she was bought in April 1964 for £750, and delivered to the Society's Totnes depot. Here she again became popular, this time with the local children, who would flock to see her operating. The Society's first engine, she has generally been in working order all her life, and ran in steam to Didcot from Plymouth in November 1967, on establishment of Didcot Railway Centre.
Shortly before the second world war, 4866 achieved some notoriety. Whilst standing in Newton Abbot station her crew saw a train bearing down on them on their track. They set the engine in motion, the fireman jumped and the driver was flung off with the impact. 4866 did not hang around, and was routed driverless on to the Kingswear line where she ran on for seven miles until purposely derailed between Torquay and Paignton.
4866 has spent all her life since 1946 running as No. 1466. Following light repairs during 1998 she was repainted to her original livery and re-entered service at Easter 1999 as 4866.
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4866 was built at Swindon in February 1936, and was a particularly strong, free-running member of the class. She was based at Newton Abbot almost all her working life, transferring to Taunton at the very end. Selected for preservation, she was bought in April 1964 for £750, and delivered to the Society's Totnes depot. Here she again became popular, this time with the local children, who would flock to see her operating. The Society's first engine, she has generally been in working order all her life, and ran in steam to Didcot from Plymouth in November 1967, on establishment of Didcot Railway Centre.
Shortly before the second world war, 4866 achieved some notoriety. Whilst standing in Newton Abbot station her crew saw a train bearing down on them on their track. They set the engine in motion, the fireman jumped and the driver was flung off with the impact. 4866 did not hang around, and was routed driverless on to the Kingswear line where she ran on for seven miles until purposely derailed between Torquay and Paignton.
4866 has spent all her life since 1946 running as No. 1466. Following light repairs during 1998 she was repainted to her original livery and re-entered service at Easter 1999 as 4866.
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Lokportrait Dampflok 52 4867 - Die Dampflok 52 4867 wurde 1943 bei der Maschinenfabrik "Maschinenbau und Bahnbedarf Potsdam" in Babelsberg gebaut Ihre Fabriknummer lautet 13931.
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Location: Poplar Bluff, MO
Highball Z Train
Description: Running with a single engine, A northbound Z train approaches.
Note the cowboy hat on the dash
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Conrail Road Number: 4869 - Former PRR 4869 in storage at Edgemoor, DE on 12/9/79.
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Georgia RR 2-8-2 locomotive #4870
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44871 (LMS 4871 & BR 44871) - 4871 was built at Crewe in 1945 and later renumbered 44871 following nationalisation in 1948.
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4872, 4875 and 4862 at the Paddock in Werris Creek loco.
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Soundesign 4873 Portable TV / Cassette Boombox
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Locomotive: PRR 4875(GG1) - Date: 8/15/1962 - Location: Leaman Place, PA
-Wreck of the Federal Express 01/15/1953 Union Station, Washington DC PRR GG1 4876
The Federal Express was still moving at about 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) when it was 1,000 feet (300 m) from the terminal. It had slowed to just 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) when it struck the bumper. The train crashed through the buffer stop, then through the stationmaster's office, and then demolished a newsstand. The locomotive began skidding to its right. It also destroyed a steel pillar in the concourse, and tore through the concourse's concrete floor (which was 6 inches (15 cm) higher than the tracks outside).
The floor, not designed to hold the weight of a train, gave way beneath the 475,000 lb locomotive, and the rear of the engine plunged into the baggage and mail rooms in the basement below.
Two coaches came loose from the engine and the rest of the train. One of them slid onto the concourse to the right of the engine, coming to rest almost abreast of it. The other nosed downward behind the engine into the gigantic hole in the concourse floor. Six more coach cars jumped the tracks behind the train.
The engine was just inches from smashing into the crowded waiting room beyond the concourse. A Life magazine photo showed the nose of the engine just pushing open the doors to the waiting room.
Amazingly, no one died during the accident. Only 43 people were injured, six seriously enough to require overnight hospitalization. Most of the workers in the basement had just departed for their coffee break, which spared their lives. Four Union Station workers were briefly trapped in the wreckage, but quickly extricated. The engineer had no injuries, and the fireman received only scratches. Both men climbed out of the engine under their own power.
The stationmaster's clock, which was found in the wreckage, showed the time as 8:38 A.M.
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The Federal Express was still moving at about 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) when it was 1,000 feet (300 m) from the terminal. It had slowed to just 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) when it struck the bumper. The train crashed through the buffer stop, then through the stationmaster's office, and then demolished a newsstand. The locomotive began skidding to its right. It also destroyed a steel pillar in the concourse, and tore through the concourse's concrete floor (which was 6 inches (15 cm) higher than the tracks outside).
The floor, not designed to hold the weight of a train, gave way beneath the 475,000 lb locomotive, and the rear of the engine plunged into the baggage and mail rooms in the basement below.
Two coaches came loose from the engine and the rest of the train. One of them slid onto the concourse to the right of the engine, coming to rest almost abreast of it. The other nosed downward behind the engine into the gigantic hole in the concourse floor. Six more coach cars jumped the tracks behind the train.
The engine was just inches from smashing into the crowded waiting room beyond the concourse. A Life magazine photo showed the nose of the engine just pushing open the doors to the waiting room.
Amazingly, no one died during the accident. Only 43 people were injured, six seriously enough to require overnight hospitalization. Most of the workers in the basement had just departed for their coffee break, which spared their lives. Four Union Station workers were briefly trapped in the wreckage, but quickly extricated. The engineer had no injuries, and the fireman received only scratches. Both men climbed out of the engine under their own power.
The stationmaster's clock, which was found in the wreckage, showed the time as 8:38 A.M.
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Pennsylvania Railroad 4877 - PRR 4877, formerly nicknamed "Big Red", is a GG1-class electric locomotive owned by the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey. It is stored at the West Boonton Yard in Boonton, New Jersey, United States. It is fully cosmetically restored to its original appearance.