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  • Thumbnail for Duplex locomotive
    A duplex locomotive is a steam locomotive that divides the driving force on its wheels by using two pairs of cylinders rigidly mounted to a single locomotive...
    16 KB (2,188 words) - 11:33, 22 April 2024
  • Boiler feedwater pump (category Steam boiler components)
    crankshaft was required. A duplex steam pump has two sets of steam and water cylinders. They are not physically connected but the steam valves on the first pump...
    4 KB (506 words) - 20:59, 8 January 2024
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    Pennsylvania Railroad class Q2 (category Duplex locomotives)
    Railroad's class Q2 comprised one prototype and twenty-five production duplex steam locomotives of 4-4-6-4 wheel arrangement built between 1944 and 1945...
    5 KB (303 words) - 01:03, 22 April 2024
  • Google Duplex, an extension of Google Assistant Duplex (automobile), an early car built in Canada in 1923 Duplex locomotive, a type of steam locomotive...
    1 KB (218 words) - 14:26, 31 March 2022
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    Pennsylvania Railroad class T1 (category Duplex locomotives)
    The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) class T1 duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 steam locomotives, introduced in 1942 with two prototypes and later in 1945-1946 with 50...
    18 KB (1,874 words) - 11:26, 11 May 2024
  • Pennsylvania Railroad 5550 (PRR 5550) is a mainline duplex drive steam locomotive under construction in the United States. With an estimated completion...
    37 KB (4,078 words) - 09:32, 18 May 2024
  • several Pennsylvania Railroad terminals 6-4-4-6, a wheel arrangement for duplex steam locomotives in the Whyte notation, was nicknamed "Pennsylvania" SS Pennsylvania...
    2 KB (262 words) - 18:28, 17 June 2023
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    Pennsylvania Railroad class S1 (category Duplex locomotives)
    The PRR S1 class steam locomotive (nicknamed "The Big Engine") was a single experimental duplex locomotive of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was designed...
    36 KB (4,804 words) - 16:20, 14 May 2024
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    to the perfection of the direct steam pump (1845—55), patented the duplex steam pump (1859), and built the first duplex waterworks engine, widely adopted...
    6 KB (800 words) - 17:28, 15 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Steam locomotive
    locomotive Duplex locomotive Electric-steam locomotive Geared steam locomotive Heilmann locomotive High-pressure steam locomotive Steam dummies and Steam trams...
    145 KB (17,775 words) - 15:12, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baldwin RF-16
    problems. The style was inspired by the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 class duplex steam locomotive, some of which were built by Baldwin. The first locomotives...
    13 KB (1,050 words) - 00:31, 15 May 2024
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    Pennsylvania Railroad class S2 (category Steam turbine locomotives)
    "The Steam Turbine: Coal's New Hope", Trains (in German), Kalmbach Publishing Co., pp. 15–18, ISSN 0041-0934 The Duplex and Experimental Steam Engines...
    15 KB (1,590 words) - 19:19, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for High-speed rail
    160 km/h (99 mph) by steam locomotives. In 1939, the largest railroad of the world, the Pennsylvania Railroad introduced a duplex steam engine Class S1, which...
    167 KB (19,176 words) - 13:16, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Whyte notation
    The Whyte notation is a classification method for steam locomotives, and some internal combustion locomotives and electric locomotives, by wheel arrangement...
    31 KB (1,779 words) - 00:55, 12 May 2024
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    incorporated a more efficient E-type superheater and duplex steam valve to allow better steaming without enlarging the boiler, while the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement...
    90 KB (10,281 words) - 16:45, 21 April 2024
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    Baltimore and Ohio class N-1 (category Duplex locomotives)
    Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's sole Class N-1 steam locomotive, #5600 (named "George H. Emerson"), was the first duplex locomotive and the first 4-4-4-4 locomotive...
    4 KB (208 words) - 23:57, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam locomotives of the 21st century
    turn wheels under steam when set on blocks, but not yet ready to run on rails since braking system not fitted, yet) PRR T1 4-4-4-4 duplex No. 5550: The Pennsylvania...
    25 KB (2,763 words) - 09:43, 9 May 2024
  • Multiplex locomotive (category Steam locomotive types)
    locomotive is often omitted if it can be inferred from the context. The terms duplex locomotive and Divided drive locomotive are used to describe locomotives...
    14 KB (1,661 words) - 05:18, 9 May 2024
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    A steam donkey or donkey engine is a steam-powered winch once widely used in logging, mining, maritime, and other industrial applications. Steam powered...
    19 KB (2,210 words) - 20:30, 25 February 2024
  • ACE 3000 (category Duplex locomotives)
    It was designed using a duplex-drive which meant that it would be a duplex locomotive and was designed to be a cab-forward steam locomotive. American Society...
    7 KB (561 words) - 23:55, 4 May 2024
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