1813 for the locomotive. The Butterley locomotive cost a total of £240. The historical record is scanty but it seems that the Steam Horse operated successfully...
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A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.: 80 It is fuelled by...
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The Cherepanov steam locomotive (Russian: Парово́зы Черепа́новых) was the first steam locomotive built in the Russian Empire. Yefim and Miron Cherepanov...
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Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive to operate on a common-carrier railroad. It was designed and constructed by Peter Cooper in 1829...
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The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its...
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Traction engine (redirect from Steam plough)
behind it. They are sometimes called road locomotives to distinguish them from railway locomotives – that is, steam engines that run on rails. Traction engines...
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Stephenson's Rocket (redirect from Rocket (steam locomotive))
Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester...
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gear of a steam engine that frightened horses, rather than the unfamiliar outlines of a steam engine. Baldwin Locomotive Works manufactured steam dummies...
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steam locomotive 92240". Rail Advent. "Bluebell Railway Locomotives - D6570". Bluebell Railway. Retrieved 3 July 2021. "Bluebell Railway Locomotives -...
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steam locomotive that operated in the United States. It was operated for the first time on September 15, 1831, and became the oldest operable steam locomotive...
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Iron horse is a pervasive term (considered by the early 21st century to be transitioning into an archaic reference) for a steam locomotive and the railway...
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A tank locomotive is a steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. Most tank engines...
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the term locomotive engine, which was first used in 1814 to distinguish between self-propelled and stationary steam engines. Prior to locomotives, the motive...
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George Stephenson built a number of experimental steam locomotives to work in the Killingworth Colliery between 1814 and 1826. George Stephenson was appointed...
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general usage, the term steam engine can refer to either complete steam plants (including boilers etc.), such as railway steam locomotives and portable engines...
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Wagonway (redirect from Horse-drawn railways)
known as horse-drawn railways and horse-drawn railroad consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered...
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Richard Trevithick (redirect from Pen-y-Darren (locomotive))
railway steam locomotive. The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled...
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Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad 2102 (category Preserved steam locomotives of Pennsylvania)
"Northern" type steam locomotive. Originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1925 as an "I-10sa" 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotive for the...
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failed following the UK railway boom.[citation needed] New steam powered road locomotives, some up to 9 feet (2.7 m) wide and 14 tons, were alleged to...
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of valve used to control the flow of steam within a steam engine or locomotive. They control the admission of steam into the cylinders and its subsequent...
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Atlantic was the name of a very early American steam locomotive built by inventor and foundry owner Phineas Davis for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)...
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cheaper to produce than the diesel locomotives then available. The capital cost per drawbar horse power was £13 6s (steam), £65 (diesel), £69 7s (turbine)...
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The Flying Dutchman was an American horse-powered locomotive operated by the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company. It was built in New York by engineer...
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Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, constructed in 1813–1814 by colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster...
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Butterley Gangroad (category Horse-drawn railways)
under a road junction at Fritchley. A steam locomotive using a walking mechanism, known as the Steam Horse locomotive, was trialled on the line in 1813....
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Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. It made history when it joined...
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The Leviathan, officially known as Central Pacific #63, was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. It was notable for helping construct...
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Amoskeag Locomotive Works, in Manchester, New Hampshire, built steam locomotives at the dawn of the railroad era in the United States. The locomotive works...
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Smoke deflectors (redirect from Steam deflectors)
on horses, and "elephant ears" in US railway slang, are vertical plates attached to each side of the smokebox at the front of a steam locomotive. They...
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Reading T-1 Class (category Steam locomotives of the United States)
"Northern" type steam locomotives owned by the Reading Company. They were rebuilt from thirty "I-10sa" class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotives between 1945...
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