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Other locomotives include:
With diesel-electric and electric locomotives, the gear ratio between the traction motors and axles is what adapts the unit to freight or passenger service, although a passenger unit may include other features, such as head end power ( also referred to as hotel power or electric train supply ) or a steam generator.
Other significant locomotives include: Bonnie Dundee, built in 1900 as a-gauge tank engine before being donated to the R & ER by a member and converted to-gauge, later converted again from tank to tender configuration ; Synolda, a twin to the original loco Sans Pareil, built in 1912, saved from Belle Vue Zoo in 1978 and now in the railway museum ; Shelagh of Eskdale, a 4-6-4 diesel built in 1969 incorporating parts of the Heywood loco Ella ; Perkins, a rebuilt 0-4-4 diesel engine, which started as a quarry shunter before being rebuilt into the steam-outlined Passenger Tractor and then again in 1984 into its current guise ; Douglas Ferreira, a B-B diesel loco constructed in 2005 and named after the general manager of the R & ER from 1961 to 1994.
Other sources of ready-to-run rolling stock or locomotives include the Dapol, Heljan, Peco, ViTrains and previously Lima.
Siemens ' transportation and logistics-related products include equipment and systems for rail transportation including rail vehicles for mass transit, regional and long-distance transportation, locomotives, equipment and systems for rail electrification, central control systems, interlockings, and automated train controls ; equipment and systems for road traffic including traffic detection, information and guidance ; equipment and systems for airport logistics including cargo tracking and baggage handling ; and equipment and systems for postal automation including letter parcel sorting.
Local attractions include Ashdown Forest ( where the Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set ) and the Bluebell Railway, a preserved heritage line with steam locomotives.
These include motor or road vehicles such as cars and motorcycles, heavier vehicles such as buses and commercial vehicles, non-road vehicles such as go-karts, snowmobiles, boats ( fixed engine installations and outboards ), lawn mowers, large agricultural and construction equipment, locomotives and aircraft and static engines such as electrical generators.
Others manufactured items include tractors, locomotives, cigarettes, fertilizer, processed meats, agricultural machinery, and electrical equipment.
Vehicles that use dynamic brakes include forklifts, diesel-electric locomotives, and streetcars.
The same rail cars serve some of the routes on the Israel Railways network, hauled by diesel locomotives and include electric generators housed in the control car.
These products include the LEGACY equipped steam and diesel locomotives which are accurate and highly detailed scale models.
Baldwin built many 4-4-0 " American " type locomotives, surviving examples of which include the 1872 Countess of Dufferin and 1875's Virginia and Truckee Railroad No. 22 " Inyo ", but it was perhaps best known for the 2-8-2 " Mikado " and 2-8-0 " Consolidation " types.
Its activities would expand to include railway locomotives and traction equipment, steam turbines, consumer electronics, guided missiles, aircraft and computers.
Current locomotives in major production include the GE Evolution Series ; for a complete listing, see the list of GE locomotives.
Technical specifications of locomotives often include tractive effort curves, which show the relationship between tractive effort and velocity.
Examples include the New York Central's " Super Hudsons " as used on the Twentieth Century Limited and Empire State Express ; the Milwaukee Road's purpose-built Atlantics and Hudsons used in Hiawatha service ; the Pennsylvania Railroad's duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 type T1 locomotives, and two Union Pacific engines, a 4-6-2 and a 4-8-2, used on the " Forty Niner " and other trains.
Examples include the Self-Changing Gears RF 28 ( used in many first-generation diesel multiple units of British Railways ) and RF 11 used in the British Rail Class 03 and British Rail Class 04 diesel shunting locomotives.
By this time, the Fragonset Class 31 fleet had expanded considerably to include three Class 31 / 1, three Class 31 / 4 and two Class 31 / 6 locomotives.
Steam locomotives in operation include the Torch Lake, an 1873 0-6-4 Mason Bogie which is one of the oldest operating steam locomotives in the U. S., and the Edison, a Davenport 0-4-0 rebuilt into a 4-4-0 by Ford.
Brookville's locomotives were the first to include planetary drive axles rather than chain drives.
Examples include the EMD E-units and ALCO PAs, which were passenger locomotives, and the dual service FM Erie-built.
Examples include the three EMD LWT12 locomotives built by EMD in 1956.
Examples include the three lightweight RP-210 locomotives built by Baldwin in 1956 and 1957 for use with Pullman-Standard Train-X equipment.

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A British armoured truck, hastily built from the smokebox es of several steam locomotives at Inchicore railway works
* A British brand of railway locomotives, road rollers and other products ; see Thomas Green & Son
* British Rail Class 52 or Westerns, a class of locomotives
A selection of British Railways steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and return to Liverpool – the journey is known as the Fifteen Guinea Special ).
They have room to accommodate four standard length British Railways Mark 1 coaches and six large steam or diesel locomotives.
* Robert Hudson Ltd, defunct British manufacturer of steam locomotives
However, much of the technology developed for the power cars was subsequently used in the InterCity225 British Rail Class 91 locomotives, which run on the East Coast route from London to Leeds and Edinburgh.
This combination came about as early clockwork mechanisms and electric motors were difficult to fit within HO scale models of British prototypes which are smaller than equivalent European and US locomotives.
The Bluebell Railway also preserved a number of steam locomotives even before the cessation of steam service on British mainline railways in 1968.
No other British steam locomotives have a longer or more consistent record of high speed running than the A4s, instances of 100 mph running by them must exceed those of all other types combined, though it must be stressed that even 90 mph running was a relatively rare event with steam traction, much less 100 mph.
* 1500 Class: These are former British Rail Class 77 locomotives.
Because of the gauge, unusual for the British Isles, locomotives and rolling stock to supplement the originals have had to be obtained from a cosmopolitan variety of sources including the Zillertalbahn in Austria.
* British Rail Class 73 locomotives ( except Class 73 / 0 ), pre TOPS classification " JB "
On May 13, 2003, the provincial government of British Columbia announced that the provincial Crown corporation, BC Rail ( BCR ), would be sold with the winning bidder receiving BCR's surface operating assets ( locomotives, cars, and service facilities ).
British Railways crest as used on coaching stock and some diesel locomotives from 1956 until the late 1960s
The term Deltic ( meaning in the form of the Greek letter Delta ) is used to refer to both the Deltic E. 130 opposed-piston high-speed diesel engine and the locomotives produced by English Electric using these engines, including its demonstrator locomotive named DELTIC and the production version for British Railways, which designated these as ( TOPS ) Class 55.
Brush Type 2 locomotives became British Rail Class 31 | Class 31 under TOPS.
The Canada Science and Technology Museum owns one operational engine constructed from two locomotives, numbered engines 3 and 4 built for the Merrill & Ring Lumber Co., Ltd and used in their forestry operations at Theodosia Arm on the British Columbia mainland.
By this time, the Beeching Axe had reduced by two-thirds the amount of trackage in the UK ; as a resultant, most steam locomotives had been withdrawn, and most British Railways standard-design diesel and electric locomotives had double-ended cabs.
Presently, brake vans are only deemed necessary by HM Railway Inspectorate or Network Rail in certain special cases, for example in trains with unusual cargoes or track maintenance trains, or when one of the few single-cabbed locomotives are used, such as the British Rail Class 20.
British and European locomotives of this type tend to be much smaller than the common size in the United States.
These were developed from similar locomotives supplied by the English Electric Company to the Big Four British railway companies in the 1930s and 1940s, e. g. those pioneered by the LMS.
Steam locomotives operated by British Railways for the Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar ( stopping at Blake Hall ) from 1949 to 1957, when the line was electrified and taken over by the Underground's Central Line.
Steam locomotives operated by British Rail for the London Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar ( stopping at North Weald ) from 1949 to 1957, when the track was electrified and taken over by the Underground's Central Line.

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