The Milwaukee Road S3 Class was a class of 10 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company in 1944 and operated by the Milwaukee Road until the mid 1950s. The locomotives saw service in pulling freight and passenger trains throughout the Milwaukee Road.

Milwaukee Road 261 is a S3 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Schenectady, New York, in July 1944 for the Milwaukee Road (MILW). It was used for heavy mainline freight and passenger work …

S3型蒸汽机车是MILW于1944年7月~9月间从ALCO购置的10台蒸汽机车。 在MILW，全数S3型蒸汽机车用于干线客货牵引，直到20世纪50年代中期。 S3-261号机车. 历史. 1941年10月，MILW从EMD购买了第1组四节重联设计的FT型内燃机车，后于1943年7月设法获得了第2组FT型内燃机车。 1944年，MILW计划采购更多的FT型内燃机车，但是战争生产委员会却分配了6组FT型内燃机车⑶，以及10台ALCO制4-8-4轮式蒸汽机车给密尔沃基铁路。 它们在1944年7月~9月间交付， …

In July 1944, the Milwaukee Road took an order of (10) 4-8-4 Northerns from the American Locomotive Company. Numbered 260-269, they were designated the S-3 class, and were used for heavy mainline freights and occasionally subbing on crack passenger trains. Far from being the heaviest or fastest 4-8-4’s, they were certainly of the most modernized.

Milwaukee Road No. 265 is an S3 Class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive, built in July 1944 by Alco for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, or the Milwaukee Road. It is one of the ten last steam locomotives delivered to the line.

2025年2月26日 · Milwaukee Road #261 is a 4-8-4 locomotive part of its S-3 Class built by Alco in 1943. Today, it is in owned by the Friends Of The 261.

Like many Milwaukee Road locomotives, the S3 had all-weather vestibuled cabs, a jacketed smokebox and solid cast pilot with a retractable coupler. The picture on the right also shows the squared smokebox door, fitted to the S3s by the Milwaukee Road after WWII to permit easier access to the superheater units.

This HO Scale Milwaukee Road Class S3 4-8-4 from Broadway Limited is ideal for your mid-1940s and later layout. Built by the American Locomotive Company in 1944, the S-3 was the culminating iteration of the Milwaukee's own 1930 S-1 Northern design. In 1937, Baldwin delivered 30 S-2s into service and in 1940 delivered another 10 S-2 locomotives.

2024年3月13日 · Milwaukee Road class S3 Northern 267 rolls stock and refrigerator cars east at Bensenville, Ill., in the 1940s. The 4-8-4 is one of 10 built by Alco for MILW in 1944; sister 261 was restored for excursion service in 1993 and still runs out of Minneapolis. Classic Trains collection. Members enjoy 15% off any purchase in our store. Join Today!

The Milwaukee Road S3 Class was a class of 10 4-8-4 locomotives "Northern" type steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company in 1944 and operated by the Milwaukee Road until the mid 1950s. The locomotives saw service in pulling freight and passenger trains throughout the Milwaukee...