Alco held the license for the Gresley conjugated valve gear in the US. Before the UP 4-12-2 there were a few 4-10-2 using the Gresley motion. The...
Looks to be the original 1912 publication. I don't recall it ever being reprinted.
The T1 had 502,200 lb locomotive weight, the rest being the tender. Of that, 279.910 was on the driving wheels. 122.720 on the trailing truck and...
I think there may have been a total of 43 NCB tanks fitted with the Giesl Ejector. The first one was fitted to an Austerity tank in 1959, and the...
The slipping problem was really the downfall of the Duplex design. Even the Q2 anti slip device did not entirely solve the problems, and would not...
Quite possibly, but there were some logged runs in late 1946 at 135-142 mph that occurred, without slipping at high speed. Most slipping seemed to...
One of the problems with the original T1s was damage caused to the poppet valves, a problem that was never completely resolved. This was thought...
No problem if it still retains it's Master Mechanics front end - SC ? Probably not if it's in the UK
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