2 8 4 Locomotive. Museum supporters, historical society dig into campaign to preserve Surviving Examples of 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Locomotives in the USA This new 2-8-4 locomotive was sent to the Boston & Albany Railroad by Lima in the early spring of 1925 for tests on that railroad
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Whyte Gauge Railroad Line Location Status Builder Info Notes; 3620: 2-8-8-4: 14½" Whiskey River: unknown, Cleveland, OH: stored The B&A subsequently ordered 55 copies and the 2-8-4 got a name - Berkshire
The 2884 "Yellowstone" A Late Era Design
The prototype locomotive then successfully demonstrated on several more railroads, and Lima got orders from Boston & Maine, Illinois Central, and Missouri Pacific. In Europe, this wheel arrangement was mostly seen in mainline passenger express. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built.It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal.But the firebed was too large for the available draft and.
284 "Berkshire" Born From The 282. The prototype locomotive then successfully demonstrated on several more railroads, and Lima got orders from Boston & Maine, Illinois Central, and Missouri Pacific. Their reliability and efficiency led to adoption by an impressive array of nineteen different railroads, with the Erie Railroad holding the record for.
2 4 4 2 Steam. In several test runs over a division of the railroad that crossed the Berkshire Hills, the demonstration locomotive, which carried road. The Yellowstone Type steam locomotive design, of the 2-8-8-4 wheel arrangement and an articulated design featured many of the peak technological advances of the motive power and being developed in the late 1920s had an extremely short lifespan, as some Yellowstones were barely 10 years of age before being retired!