Steam Locomotives
These enormous Chesapeake and Ohio locomotives represented the ultimate in Lima's Superpower Concept, and has a six wheel trailing truck.
What are the Alleghenies?
This Swiss mechanical engineer invented articulation in a steam locomotive.
Who is Anatole Mallet?
This device makes the water go from the tender to the boiler.
What is the injector?
"How Tomorrow Moves".
What is CSX?
The largest diesel locomotives ever built.
What is the Union Pacific DDA40X?
This class of streamliners is the strongest 4-8-4s ever built, with 80,000 pounds of tractive effort.
What is the Norfolk and Western Class J?
These brothers were in control of the Chesapeake and Ohio, Pere Marquette, Nickel Plate and Erie Railroads.
Who are the Van Sweringen Brothers?
The arm on an electric locomotive that goes up and touches the overhead wires.
What is the pantograph?
"Standard Railroad of the World".
What is the Pennsylvania Railroad?
A steam locomotive with two sets of driving wheels on a rigid frame.
What is the Duplex type?
This railway became the first major railroad in the United States to dieselize, being fully dieselized by 1953.
What is the Southern Railway?
The screw-like device that transfers coal from the tender to the firebox.
What is the stoker?
What is the Seaboard Air Line?
The part of the tender that holds the coal.
What is the bunker?
These electric components provides power to the wheels of diesel-electric and electric locomotives.
What are traction motors?
"Everywhere West".
What is the Burlington Route?
This covers most of the bottom of the firebox to hold the fire.
What is the grate?
This component slides back and forth in the steam chest to allow steam into the cylinders.
"Precision Transportation".
What is the Norfolk and Western Railway?