History of the locomotive -The development of the locomotive, old photos - Electrical locomotives in the dawn of XX Century -Operation of a steam locomotive - Photos of old locomotives
| GREAT AMERICAN
STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN THE 1930's . |
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Photo : Baldwin Locomotive Works Typical locomotive for passengers of the Pacific type |
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Photo : Baldwin Locomotive Works Locomotive American or Santa Fe type. |
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Photo : American Locomotive Co. Locomotive of the Mountain type for heavy expresses of travelers |
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Photo : Baldwin Locomotive Works The most powerful locomotive to be built towards the 1930's . Although its gross weight (413 tons) was not as great as the one of others of the same type, its power of traction (81,000 kilograms) was of about 3,000 kilograms superior to the one of the immediately superior locomotive. |
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Photo : American Locomotive Co. The biggest locomotive in the world toward the years 1930's , this machine with a weight of 335.000 kilos could exercise a force of 72.000 kilos. |
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| EUROPEAN
STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN THE 1930's . |
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English
locomotive |
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English
locomotive |
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French
locomotive compound type . |
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Belgian
locomotive |
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Saxon locomotive . |
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Prussian
locomotive |
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Picture in the the beginnings of the XX century of the plant of production of steam locomotives corresponding to the Company Baldwin Locomotive Works of Eddystone, Philadelphia, United States of America . Sector of transfer of mounted locomotives to the test place, the displacement was made by means of a giant and movable crane inside the factory. |
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Photo : American Locomotive Co.- year 1924 - Locomotive Delaware & Hudson of 157 tones . |
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Unloading a locomotive: The picture corresponds to the unload of a locomotive type Mikado of 55 tons in Buenos Aires, Argentina , that was the first machine totally completed that was shipped to South America , built by the Baldwin Locomotive Co. |
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Locomotive Mallet Compound , which was one of the big machines of the Union Pacific railroad on Sierra Nevada's mountains, with 28,65 meters of longitude and 300 tons of weight . In this type of machines, cylinders of high pressure moved the group of rear wheels and cylinders of low pressure moved the group of front wheels, giving this distribution the name to this locomotive .
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Argentina's locomotive "La Porteña "
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Built in 1856, by E.B. Wilson & Co. for an Indian railroad. Before being shipped to India, it was bought by the English government for the military service in the war of Crimea, but there are doubts that it was sent there. The contractors of the railroad construction of the line Plaza Lavalle to Floresta in Buenos Aires , Argentina , bought it in England and they sent it to Argentina, where, after being completed this line, it towed the inaugural train and it was in active service up to 1891. | ||||||||
