Information about the 2-8-0 Consolidation locomotives of Union Pacific and its subsidiaries. Union Pacific 2-8-0 Consolidations Total of 596 in all classes of 2-8-0, delivered between 1868 and …

The first 2-8-0 was built by Matthias Baldwin in 1866. The locomotive was named "Consolidation" in honor of the recent consolidation of the Beaver Meadow, Penn Haven & White Haven and …

In 1937, the railroad decided to modify the cylinder layout--and the class ID, as Chris Hohl points out--to Simple Articulated-Consolidation. When replacing the compound setup with four simple …

Great Northern Railway 2-8-8-0 Class N-1 locomotive, built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in August 1912. In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel …

The Utah Railway three 2-8-8-0s, numbered as 200-202, were delivered in April and June 1918, being built by Baldwin rather than ALCo. The first UP 2-8-8-0 locomotives, numbered as UP …

The 4-12-2s which began the era of big, fast, powerful steam locomotives on the Union Pacific, could pull about the same tonnage as a compound 2-8-8-0 but at nearly twice the speed! On …

2025年2月27日 · The history of the 2-8-8-0 began in 1911 at the Sante Fe's Topeka, Kansas shops as one of the railroad's first such locomotives put into service. The AT&SF thought that …

2024年12月29日 · Three big 2-8-8-0 compound mallets, or "Consolidation Mallets," were built for the Utah by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in April 1918, numbered 200 - 202. They were …

2 天之前 · I was looking at a list of surviving UP 2-8-0's and was struck by the quantity of them saved. From the UP website, there are 21 in existence today (below). From web research, I …

2018年9月1日 · This Consolidation (2-8-0) type locomotive was built in 1906 at Alco’s Brooks Locomotive Works in Paterson, NJ, for the Union Pacific subsidiary the San Pedro, Los …