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A locomotive booster for steam locomotives is a small supplementary two-cylinder steam engine back-gear-connected to the trailing truck axle on the locomotive...14 KB (1,762 words) - 00:23, 10 April 2024
B–unit (redirect from Booster unit)therefore be operated in tandem with another coupled locomotive with a cab (an A unit). The terms booster unit and cabless are also used. The concept is largely...22 KB (2,527 words) - 10:22, 28 May 2024- used Booster dose, or booster shot, in medicine, a vaccination given after a previous vaccination Booster engine, extra cylinders on a steam locomotive, driving...2 KB (352 words) - 08:03, 3 September 2023
- FM Consolidation Line (category B-A1A locomotives)railway locomotive designs produced by Fairbanks-Morse and its Canadian licensee, the Canadian Locomotive Company. Railfans have dubbed these locomotives “C-liners”...21 KB (2,234 words) - 21:51, 30 January 2024
six Kb 4-8-4 locomotives were fitted with boosters, the only 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge engines in the world to have such equipment. Booster engines were...145 KB (17,775 words) - 15:12, 20 May 2024
Streamliner (redirect from Streamlined locomotive)consisted of a 1200+900 hp cab/booster locomotive pulling nine cars of the same form. Automotive-styled cab/booster locomotive sets with 1200 hp engines powered...109 KB (11,500 words) - 06:25, 13 May 2024
Slug (railroad) (redirect from Slug (locomotive))cabbed slugs) Hump booster, used by Canadian National Motor Trailer(MT) used by Conrail The CCRCLs (control car remote control locomotives) used by Union...9 KB (1,232 words) - 22:16, 6 May 2024- technology became available, reversible boosters were sometimes used for speed control in DC electric locomotives. The boosters were called reversible, because...6 KB (805 words) - 02:45, 20 October 2023
company kept them in service as boosters until 1965. Fiat claims to have built the first Italian diesel–electric locomotive in 1922, but little detail is...91 KB (11,367 words) - 07:09, 16 May 2024
M-10003 to M-10006 (category Diesel multiple units with locomotive-like power cars)power car became the other third booster. In this form, the three power sets ran until they were replaced by E8 locomotives in 1953, at which point they were...12 KB (1,757 words) - 08:53, 2 January 2023
Electro-Motive Diesel (category Locomotive engine manufacturers)B-B development design locomotives featured the multiple-unit control systems that became the basis of cab/booster locomotive sets, and the twin engine...62 KB (6,756 words) - 08:22, 2 May 2024
EMD FT (category B-B locomotives)units were built, along with 541 cabless booster or ”B” units, for a grand total of 1,096 units. The locomotives were all sold to customers in the United...20 KB (2,105 words) - 14:18, 19 August 2023
The Selkirk locomotives were 36 steam locomotives of the 2-10-4 wheel arrangement built for Canadian Pacific Railway by Montreal Locomotive Works, Montreal...8 KB (989 words) - 03:24, 1 June 2024
ALCO DL-109 (category A1A-A1A locomotives)for Diesel Locomotive). They were of a cab unit design, and both cab-equipped lead A units DL-103b, DL-105, DL-107, DL-109 and cabless booster B units DL-108...12 KB (1,217 words) - 12:39, 24 May 2024
trailing wheels is usually located in a trailing truck. On some large locomotives, a booster engine was mounted on the trailing truck to provide extra tractive...4 KB (521 words) - 01:30, 19 November 2023
GCR Class 8H (category Great Central Railway locomotives)(non-booster) locomotives were classified S1/1 and were also fitted with superheaters. All the boosters were removed in 1943. All six locomotives passed...4 KB (315 words) - 17:31, 26 November 2023- with material provided by the major builders of such. Illustrations from the 1922 Locomotive Cyclopedia 4-8-2 locomotive Franklin Booster GE Steeplecab...1 KB (120 words) - 20:26, 7 November 2022
- of vehicle body Blue Devil A Canadian National locomotive painted in a blue-and-white livery Booster A cabless B unit or slug. Although a slug and a...130 KB (13,217 words) - 04:44, 12 May 2024
Southern Pacific 4449 (redirect from Daylight (locomotive))Railroad's "GS-4" class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives and one of only two GS-class locomotives surviving, the other being "GS-6" 4460 at the National...32 KB (3,369 words) - 17:18, 22 April 2024- Baldwin DR-4-4-15 (category Diesel-electric locomotives of the United States)with 11 cabless booster B units; 36 "Sharknose" A units and 36 B units were constructed, making a total for all models of 105 locomotives built. Hayden...5 KB (165 words) - 02:41, 9 September 2023
- consisted of a four-unit locomotive on the head end of the train, 69 hopper cars loaded with trona, and a two-unit helper locomotive on the rear of the train
- grated roadbeds of the N&W and the C&O, hauled by the most powerful steam locomotives ever designed. Lynn Seldon, Country Roads of West Virginia: Drives, Day
- cylinders" at the opposite end of the hydraulic system. (9)Vacuum Servo/Brake Booster-A component used to enhance the master cylinder and augment pressure from