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| Author: | Thomas Manz [ Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | First steam loco booster? |
I was reading recently that the first booster engine applied to the trailing truck of a steam locomotive was successfully tested on the NYC in 1919. Is this essentially correct? Any details? tr2manz@frontiernet.net |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First steam loco booster? |
> I was reading recently that the first > booster engine applied to the trailing truck > of a steam locomotive was successfully > tested on the NYC in 1919. > Is this essentially correct? Any details? "Rail Facts & Feats" by John Marshall says the first boosters were applied to North American two-wheel trailing trucks in 1915 and 4-wheel trucks "after 1925". However, engine-equipped tenders were in experimental use in France as early as 1842 and on a fleet of 50 0-6-0s on the Great Northern Railway of England in 1863. The latter were converted to normal tenders by 1873. LNER4472-NOSPAM-@bcpl.net |
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