Northern Pacific Railway locomotives - Wikipedia
Steam locomotive classes. Below is a table of information for the Northern Pacific Railway ’s steam roster with a symbol, Whyte notation, common name and notes. (The notes were compiled by Richard Boyland and Wes Barris and first posted May 30, 1991, to the electronic newsgroup rec.railroad.) Included is a breakdown of the Northern Pacific ...
Equipment - NPRHA
Steam Locomotives. This section provides general and specific information on the steam locomotives operated by the Northern Pacific Railway. Photo collections listed here have strong Northern Pacific content regardless of where they are preserved.
Northern Pacific 4-8-4 "Northern" Locomotives in the USA
Northern Pacific 4-8-4 "Northern" Locomotives in the USA. By the 1920s the Northern Pacific Railroad needed bigger passenger locomotives. The NP had its motive power department work with the American Locomotive Company's design engineers to develop a new locomotive.
Northern Pacific 4-6-2 "Pacific" Locomotives in the USA
Northern Pacific 4-6-2 "Pacific" Locomotives in the USA. Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media. Class Q (Locobase 917) Data from "Heavy 4-6-2 Engine for the Northern Pacific", Railway & Locomotive Engineering, Volume XVI [16], No 8 (August 1903), p. 357. Works numbers were 27317-27322 in December 1902 and 27323-27336 in April 1903.
2-8-8-4 - Wikipedia
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. The type was generally named the Yellowstone, a name given it by the first owner, the Northern Pacific Railway, whose lines ran near Yellowstone National Park. Seventy-two Yellowstone-type locomotives ...
Northern Pacific Railway locomotives - Trains
2021年5月24日 · 2-8-8-4 steam locomotive No. 5006 Northern Pacific’s 12 Z-5 freight locomotives were the first 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone types and, at the time of their construction in 1928 and ’30, the largest engines in the world. Their immense fireboxes, sized for low-grade Rosebud coal, were eventually found to be too big for efficient operation.
Northern Pacific Railway History - NPRHA
The NP was the earliest adopter of roller-bearing technology on steam locomotives (acquiring the famous Timken "Four Aces" demonstrator 4-8-4 locomotive in 1933). It was one of the last railroads to rely upon steam power due to the vital economics of its …
Northern Pacific Railway - Wikipedia
The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was an important transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest.
NP 1364 LOCO - The Northern Pacific Railway Museum
Below: 1364 slide gallery. click on picture to enlarge In 1902, the Northern Pacific purchased its last major group of ten wheelers, forty Class S-4 Vauclain compound engines built by Baldwin for the price of $16,787.59 in 1902.
Northern Pacific 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Locomotives in the USA
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. It would turn out to be the one and only Yellowstone that ALCO would build.