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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Norfolk & Western 2181


ID# 23,844
NORFOLK & WESTERN 2181

One of the big ones, a 2-8-8-2, digs in on the grade Eastbound out of Roanoke, Va. in 1957.

Photo by Richard J. Cook

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

SOUTHERN 6100


ID# 51,830
SOUTHERN 6100

Southern Railway System No. 6100 on display at Electro-Motive Division's 50th anniversary celebration on September 9, 1972 at McCook, Ill. No. 6100 was EMD's model FT demonstrator 103 and ran with a companion B unit for a total of 2700 hp. The FT locomotive is credited as the leading influence that brought an end to the steam locomotive era.

Monday, June 3, 2019

WORLD'S FASTEST LOCOMOTIVE


ID# 38,587
WORLD'S FASTEST RAILROAD RUN

The world's fastest run by a railroad train was made by the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania Railroad on Monday, June 12, 1905, when it ran 127.1 miles an hour between AY tower and Elida, Ohio. The Broadway Limited was pulled by coal-burning steam Locomotive 7002, and although many swift runs have been made in recent years by steam, electric and diesel locomotives, none has equalled the 127.1 mile-an-hour record run established in 1905. At the Chicago Railroad Fair of 1949, Locomotive 7002 stands on a section of P.R.R. standard roadbed with rails weighing 155-pounds to the yard - heaviest in the world.