Talk:4-8-4

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1 South African input?
2 Spain
3 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
4 Works numbers for 4-8-4 locomotives

[edit] South African input?

I think a write-up and some pictures of the 25 class (including Condensing and Non-Condensing variants) and the ultra-modern 26NC "Red Devil" class would be a very useful addition to this page, as these locomotives represent an ongoing development of the 4-8-4 type from the 1950s onwards. Could anyone lay their hands on a public domain or 'fair use' image? Zzrbiker 03:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spain

Copied from a reverted version...

You are missed the ten spanish RENFE 2-4-2^F 2001-2010 class, named "confederaciones" or (not official) "lagartonas" of 1955-56. I think the only western european 4-8-4 serie with separate tender. She weighed (witouth tender) 142200Kg, have 21000Kg of tractive efort, 1,90m driving wheels and can run at more than 160Km/h.

One is preserved (2009) in running order at the National Railway Museum of Madrid-Delicias.

Magí Aloguín i Pallach

Tarragona,

Catalonia

(Spain)

Sounds like a good topic to follow up on and include here... Slambo (Speak) 14:25, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

The 4-8-4 "Streamlines" are not mentioned in main article. Here are the details:

ACL 1800 - 1812 4-8-4 std gauge 27 x 30 80 Baldwin 62174 - 62179 / 1938

[edit] Works numbers for 4-8-4 locomotives

It should be relatively simple job to add works numbers for all 4-8-4´s or 2D2-h2 steam locomotives which have touched the rails all over the world. The Spanish and Russian (Soviet) 2D2-h2 passenger locomotives were built in the 1950´s for 1672 and 1524 mm gauges. The rest for standard (1435 mm) gauge. The Russians seems to have had the largest single fleet with 251 locomotives, all built at Kolomna Locomotive Works near Moscow in 1949, 1953 - 1956. Also a good article of Canadian 4-8-4´s is still missing.