The 2-6-2T layout was popular for large narrow gauge engines, but the design was modified to allow the use of a firebox much wider than the track gauge. A standard gauge 2-6-2T normally …

2025年3月1日 · While most European railroads utilized the tenderless tank design, the 2-6-2T, American lines built theirs with the common format of a trailing tender. The first 2-6-2 was built …

2-6-2T: 4'-8½" SP (Central Pacific) California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, CA

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 2-6-6-2 is a locomotive with one pair of unpowered leading wheels, followed by two sets of three …

Created specifically to serve logging roads, the split-saddle tank Mallet handled the rough track and steep (4-8%) grades as well as a Shay, but was easier to maintain. And so flexible was …

2024年8月26日 · The 2-6-6-2 wheel arrangement was well-liked for its ability to lug heavy loads at slow speeds and was manufactured in a variety of sizes depending on need. In its Whyte …

These Mallet Prairie Tanks could handle twice the train load on the 5% grade that ruled, wrangling 240 tons (218 tonnes) up such a slope. On the 1.1% grade between Watson and Dragon, 51 …

Most of the Ivatt 2-6-2T class was based on the London Midland Region but the last thirty Crewe-built engines, 41290–41319, were allocated to the Southern Region from new. On the …

2016年3月18日 · — Another big steam locomotive is headed toward restoration. Northwest Railway Museum says in a post on its online blog that it will “deaccession” or sell …

The principal 2-6-2T locomotives which were built for the 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge system of the Victorian Railways (VR), are the now famous "Puffing Billy" engines. Two of these little …