Nearly all of its trains were powered by a fleet Pacific's, either ten K-1's built in 1909 by Baldwin (#151-160) or the nine more powerful K-2's (#201-209) that arrived in 1912. For many years these locomotives handled nearly all passenger assignments. ...
All of the above information concerning the O&W's steam locomotive roster is courtesy of the A.V. Neusser and C.E. Pearce article entitled, "The NYO&W," from the August 1942 issue of Trains Magazine.Diesel RosterElectro-Motive Division...
The GP20 was the first of EMD’s long line of successful “Geeps” to be turbocharged, providing the locomotive with 2,000 horsepower. A total of 260 GP20s were constructed for seven U. S. railroads – and the first buyer of the landmark locomotive was the Western Pacific. ...
possibly pulling some of the road’s homemade trailer-carrying flatcars. A visitor today, however, would be 40 years too late to see any trains at all along Bluff Street. The old CGW exists only to the northeast, up to Oelwein, as an “orphaned” Union Pacific branch,...
Union Pacific "Powered By Our People" SD70ACe #1111 All-new LED lighting Rubber MU hoses for durability Commemorative box Removable cab roof secured with magnets High-mount headlight now LED Front and rear ditchlights now LED New for the SD70ACe, LED lighting Correctly-sized illuminated ditch...
Until 1967, there were two electric operations in Butte, Mont., as both the Milwaukee Road and the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific used overhead wires to deliver power to their locomotives. The town was settled on a rich vein of copper and the railroads were kept busy moving the ore for over...
In fiscal year 2016 20.3% of sales came from business in the Asia-Pacific region (up from 19.9%), 28.5% from Europe (vs 28.3%) and 42.2% from the US (42.5% in 2015). The company also makes aftermarket parts. There was significant growth in the size of the company in terms of ...
while other roads such as Conrail acquired them in mergers. Union Pacific and Burlington Northern owned the largest fleets, with BN using its U30Cs to haul coal from the massive Powder River Basin deposits in Montana and Wyoming. Many U30Cs served nearly three decades before retirement in th...
Our Mission and History. Steam locomotives move by the power of steam under pressure. Steam locomotives were the most common form of locomotive in the US until they were phased out by diesel locomotives from the late '40s to the late '50s. Please select 1 field to search. Cedar Rapids ...