206:, was completed in 1849. Dripps wasn't too sure that the locomotive would prove effective on American railroads, and his reservations turned out to be correct. The locomotive's tractive effort was not sufficient for long term or heavy work. With only one driving axle and three unpowered leading axles, too much of the locomotive's weight was distributed over the unpowered lead three axles. Almost a century passed before a six-wheel leading truck was used again, on the
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The C&A's management, on the other hand, thought it performed admirably enough to order two more of them and place them in passenger service. It was claimed that they could reach 60 m.p.h. at a time when fast trains reached only 40 m.p.h. The 6-2-0s were later rebuilt to 4-4-0s and were in use
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Designing the locomotive type to burn coal, which was still fairly expensive and difficult to come by, was unusual for the time. The great majority of locomotives of the 1830s and 1840s were built to burn wood, which was very plentiful, cheap and exceptionally easy to obtain along the railroad
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to build him a 6-2-0 for use on the C&A. The specifications for the first 6-2-0 included a 38" diameter boiler that would burn
181:(C&A) railroad, saw 6-2-0 demonstrations on the railways there. When he returned in 1848, Stevens asked his master mechanic
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rights of way. Besides being more expensive, coal required a larger
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The first of three locomotives based on these specifications, named
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type, and in the USA the single class were sometimes referred to as
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A history of the
American locomotive; its development: 1830–1880
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Steam locomotive wheel arrangements (Whyte notation)
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238:George Allen and Unwin, 1949, pp.11-12.
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78:Other equivalent classifications are:
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189:and 96" diameter driving wheels.
53:that has an unpowered three-axle
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57:followed by a single powered
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16:Locomotive wheel arrangement
247:White, John H. Jr. (1968).
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236:Some classic locomotives,
155:Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy
127:rather than the powered
1021:Articulated locomotives
1011:2-4-4-2+2-8-8-2+2-4-4-2
953:Articulated locomotives
824:Articulated locomotives
713:Articulated locomotives
65:is associated with the
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173:On a trip to England,
161:. It was exhibited at
102:Turkish classification
89:Italian classification
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987:0-6-2+2-4-2-4-2+2-6-0
94:French classification
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163:The Great Exhibition
110:Swiss classification
315:Single engine types
177:, president of the
133:Crampton locomotive
67:Crampton locomotive
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1004:2-10-10-10-10-10-2
81:UIC classification
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218:as late as 1865.
175:Robert L. Stevens
153:built in 1848 by
63:wheel arrangement
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183:Isaac Dripps
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982:2-8-8-8-8-2
814:4-8-4+4-8-4
809:4-8-2+2-8-4
804:4-8-0+0-8-4
799:2-8-2+2-8-2
794:2-8-0+0-8-2
787:4-6-4+4-6-4
782:4-6-2+2-6-4
777:4-6-0+0-6-4
772:2-6-2+2-6-2
767:2-6-0+0-6-2
762:0-6-2+2-6-0
757:0-6-0+0-6-0
750:4-4-2+2-4-4
745:2-4-2+2-4-2
740:2-4-0+0-4-2
735:0-4-0+0-4-0
32: 1847
1101:Willamette
959:and other
371:(monorail)
222:References
975:2-8-8-8-4
970:2-8-8-8-2
961:Multiplex
943:2-10-10-2
150:Liverpool
72:Cramptons
1140:Category
671:2-2-4-0T
157:for the
61:. This
48:railroad
1096:Heisler
1056:0-6-4-0
1025:Engerth
957:Triplex
936:4-8-8-4
931:4-8-8-2
926:2-8-8-4
921:2-8-8-2
916:2-8-8-0
911:0-8-8-0
906:0-8-6-0
899:4-6-6-4
894:4-6-6-2
889:4-4-6-2
884:2-6-8-0
879:2-6-6-6
874:2-6-6-4
869:2-6-6-2
864:2-6-6-0
859:0-6-6-0
852:2-4-4-2
847:2-4-4-0
842:0-4-4-2
837:0-4-4-0
726:Garratt
717:Fairlie
703:4-6-4-4
698:4-4-6-4
693:6-4-4-6
688:4-4-4-4
683:2-4-6-2
676:4-2-2-0
666:2-2-2-2
661:2-2-2-0
656:0-2-2-0
382:0-4-0+4
269:history
195:firebox
137:firebox
119:History
38:In the
27:6-2-0,
25:C&A
1091:Climax
828:Mallet
647:Duplex
632:4-14-4
625:4-12-2
620:2-12-4
615:2-12-2
610:2-12-0
605:0-12-0
598:4-10-2
593:4-10-0
588:2-10-4
583:2-10-2
578:2-10-0
573:0-10-2
568:0-10-0
511:0-8-4T
479:2-6-6T
459:0-6-6T
417:2-4-6T
412:2-4-4T
397:0-4-6T
392:0-4-4T
357:4-2-4T
342:2-2-4T
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208:PRR S1
1120:Swiss
1068:0-8-6
1063:0-8-4
1051:0-6-4
1046:2-6-4
1039:0-4-6
1034:0-4-4
1027:types
963:types
830:types
728:types
721:Meyer
561:6-8-6
556:4-8-6
551:4-8-4
546:4-8-2
541:4-8-0
536:2-8-6
531:2-8-4
526:2-8-2
521:2-8-0
516:0-8-6
506:0-8-2
501:0-8-0
494:4-6-4
489:4-6-2
484:4-6-0
474:2-6-4
469:2-6-2
464:2-6-0
454:0-6-4
449:0-6-2
444:0-6-0
437:4-4-6
432:4-4-4
427:4-4-2
422:4-4-0
407:2-4-2
402:2-4-0
387:0-4-2
377:0-4-0
369:0-3-0
362:6-2-0
352:4-2-2
347:4-2-0
337:2-2-2
332:2-2-0
327:0-2-4
322:0-2-2
46:is a
44:6-2-0
1086:Shay
724:and
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253:ISBN
210:and
42:, a
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