2 8 8 4 Yellowstone

Northern pacific 2 8 8 4 yellowstone locomotives in the usa the first yellowstone was built in 1928 by alco for the northern pacific for running throughout the high speed plains of north dakota.

2 8 8 4 yellowstone. Is 2 8 8 4 where as the bigboy is 4 8 8 4. The design was usually dictated by the specific needs of. The 2 8 8 4 turned out to be the common choice of arrangement for the very largest steam locomotives when the speeds required were only moderate. Of yellowstone was a different design except for the two classes owned by the dm ir.

The type was generally named the yellowstone a name given it by the first owner the northern pacific railway whose lines run near yellowstone national park. 2 8 8 4 yellowstone locomotives in the usa only 72 yellowstones were built in five different classes. It would turn out to be the one and only yellowstone that alco would build. These behemoths were normally not assigned to this territory.

The type was generally named the yellowstone a name given it by the first owner the northern pacific railway whose lines run near yellowstone national park. That is 2 small wheels at the front to steer the locomotive 8 large driver wheels a second group of 8 larger driver wheels and 4 smaller wheels to support the weight of the firebox and cab. Railfan trips in the late 50s on the b o lake branch in geauga county oh 2 8 8 4 yellowstone em 1 7600. A 2 8 8 4 steam locomotive under the whyte notation has two leading wheels two sets of eight driving wheels and a four wheel trailing truck.

2 8 8 4 articulated yellowstone steam locomotives. All classes of yellowstone had fairly small drivers at 63 64. Just a few years later the big steamers were renumbered into the 600 series to make way for newly arriving diesels. Baltimore ohio 2 8 8 4 7615 em 1 is seen here in a rare scene on sand patch on august 26 1954.

This locomotive type is called the. The yellowstone type steam locomotive design of the 2 8 8 4 wheel arrangement and an articulated design meaning that either one or both sets of driving wheels pivots to better and more safely negotiate curves featured many of the peak technological advances of the motive power and being developed in the late 1920s had an extremely short lifespan as some yellowstones were barely 10 years of age before being retired. The dm ir yellowstone was one of the largest and most powerful locomotives ever constructed rivaling the more famous union pacific big boy in those regards.