What am I?

[AntonioFP45]

Lehigh Valley?

[AggroJones]

My railroad owned the largest single class of this wheel arrangement.
I share the same boiler as my more famous passenger service counterpart.
One of my nicknames is that of a candy sucker.
I'm an Eastern freight hauler.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by joseph2

Here is a easy question:What railroad had the most,and largest,Berkshire type 2-8-4 locomotives?I doubt if you want to hear my hard question! Joe G.

Erie.
I want to hear your hard question!

[joseph2]

Here is a easy question:What railroad had the most,and largest,Berkshire type 2-8-4 locomotives?I doubt if you want to hear my hard question! Joe G.

[AggroJones]

Someone please go.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C

C&O 4-8-4 600 series, 614 being the survivor?

Peter

(By the way , I checked, the RF&P locos were Baldwin)

These suckers were Lima. Mighty Greenbriers.

[M636C]

C&O 4-8-4 600 series, 614 being the survivor?

Peter

(By the way , I checked, the RF&P locos were Baldwin)

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C

The RF&P named their 4-8-4s after "Statesmen" (and "Generals")

The locomotives were black but RF&P used the colours blue and grey since they ran through Civil War battlefields.

Peter

No. Here's another clue...

The lone survivor of our group is owned by Iron Horse Enterprises, Inc. now.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cjm89

B&O P-7 "President's Class" 4-6-2.

No.

[M636C]

The RF&P named their 4-8-4s after "Statesmen" (and "Generals")

The locomotives were black but RF&P used the colours blue and grey since they ran through Civil War battlefields.

Peter

[Anonymous]

B&O P-7 "President's Class" 4-6-2.

[AggroJones]

Time for an easy one.

My fairly large drivers allowed me to fly.
The first seven of us built were named after statesmen.
One of us survived and ran railfan trips a while ago.
I was owned by "George Washington's railroad"
Lima built a dozen of us.
We are not the color our name would suggest.

[Anonymous]

No, not really. Eastern locos, except N&Ws, were rather boring, in my opinion.

[M636C]

Guys,

Doesn't anybody remember the "Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines"?

The three cylinder locomotives were Reading Atlantics 300 and 302, built 1909 to 1911, with a matching pair of conventional two cylinder engines 301 and 303. There was also a pair of 4-6-0s, 673 and 674, again one 3 and one 2 cylinder.

302 appears on the cover of "Steam Locomotives of the Reading" but there is no clue that it had three cylinders. They were all rebuilt as two cylinder engines within a few years.

There isn't much interest in earlier Eastern locomotives, is there!

Peter

[M636C]

No,

Not the Pennsylvania, but a railroad that competed with them, although they had a joint operation with Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia area.

The New Haven engine suggested above, the R-3 and R-3a were built 1926 -1928, which is the period generally associated with three cylinder engines.

These engines were built over the three year period starting seventeen years earlier.

And while I wouldn't say they didn't have any, the Pennsylvania didn't use the wide Wooten firebox much, certainly not in the 20th century.

Peter

[AggroJones]

I'm guessing a Pennsy 4-6-0 in the 1890s?

[M636C]

No,

The earliest 3 cylinder passenger engines would have been built around twenty years before the New Haven locomotives!

Think camelbacks and Wooten fireboxes, and south of New York City!

Peter

[Anonymous]

The New Haven did, they had the 4-8-2 Class R-3-a Three Cylinder Locomotives. The most famous would probably be 3558, the very last of her kind, spent her final years pushing diesel powered trains uphill.

[M636C]

These are among the shortest posts I make, so I thought I'd make one more to get the number up to 500!

What railroad had the first three-cylinder passenger locomotives in the USA, and when?

Wheel arrangements and numbers are optional!

Peter

[M636C]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cjm89

Talk about a "super Hudson", that thing has more domes and pipes than any other steamer I've seen.

Now for a hard one!

I am a steamer of a common wheel arrangement with four distinct features:

1.I had a Vanderbilt tender.
2.Many of my class had tender boosters.
3.I have a Belpair firebox.
4.My air pump is in front of the smoke box door.

The Great Northern 2-8-2s class O-7 and O-8 meet these criteria (although I can't confirm the tender booster. Also the GN S-1 4-8-4.

Peter

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Great Northern O-8 2-8-2

Or not so hard.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C

(By the way, the 3450 you illustrated was a smaller locomotive than the 3461)

Peter

My bad. I was just trying to show a Santa Fe 4-6-4 period.

[AggroJones]

Great Northern O-8 2-8-2

[M636C]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C


Milwaukee Road class F-6 4-6-4, "Baltic" or "Milwaukee" type

The "F" series was used for the CMStP&P "Pacific" classes

Peter

Once again, right type, wrong road. I thought these clues were specific enough.

To quote from George Drury's "Guide"

"In November 1933, F-6a 6415 won Industry wide recognition for running ten Minneapolis- Harlowtown return trips, 18300 miles, without any time out for shopping."

and

"in 1945, 132 and 133 (renumbered in 1938) were converted to oil and transferred to the Idaho division"

So the Milwaukee F-6 was a correct answer, just not the one you were expecting!

(By the way, the 3450 you illustrated was a smaller locomotive than the 3461)

Peter

[Anonymous]

Talk about a "super Hudson", that thing has more domes and pipes than any other steamer I've seen.

Now for a hard one!

I am a steamer of a common wheel arrangement with four distinct features:

1.I had a Vanderbilt tender.
2.Many of my class had tender boosters.
3.I have a Belpair firebox.
4.My air pump is in front of the smoke box door.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cjm89

Santa Fe #3461, going from Los Angeles to Chicago to set the record.

Right. AT&SF's super Hudson.


BTW, congrats on your 3rd star.

[Anonymous]

Santa Fe #3461, going from Los Angeles to Chicago to set the record.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C


Milwaukee Road class F-6 4-6-4, "Baltic" or "Milwaukee" type

The "F" series was used for the CMStP&P "Pacific" classes

Peter

Once again, right type, wrong road. I thought these clues were specific enough.

[M636C]

Milwaukee Road class F-6 4-6-4, "Baltic" or "Milwaukee" type

The "F" series was used for the CMStP&P "Pacific" classes

Peter

[AggroJones]

Hold on, let me get another one in please.

I set the world record for distance travelled by a steam locomotive.
I'm fueled by oil now, but I originally used coal.
My road didn't classify me as my real wheel arrangement, but as an extension of an early wheel arrangement.
I'm from a transcontinental railroad.