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The Kentucky & Tennessee Railway, with over 25 miles of track and a fleet of 12 steam locomotives, had the K&T 10 as one of its crucial components. The K&T 10 is a 2-8-2 type, also referred to as a Mikado.
I was reading in a book called history of Union Pacific steam from the UPHS and ran into a proposed 4-10-4 Lincoln type locomotive. Not much information was given other than the FEF was chosen instead. Does anyone know if any other road tested this theory of power?
The Union Pacific 9000 class was the only class of steam locomotives with a 4-12-2 wheel arrangement ever to be built. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, the locomotives had four leading wheels, twelve coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels.
Union Pacific rostered ten 4-10-2 locomotives that were three-cylindered machines developing 77,917 lbs of tractive effort on 63" drivers.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-10-4 locomotive has four leading wheels, ten driving wheels and four trailing wheels. UIC classification: 2E2 (also known as German classification and Swiss classification)
The Southern Railway sold a "Mikado" type locomotive to the Kentucky & Tennessee Railroad in October 1948. This locomotive was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and was the first 2-8-2 to arrive on the Southern Railway. The locomotive was Southern road number 4501 and was assigned K&T number 12.
The Pennsylvania Railroad K4 was a class of 425 4-6-2 steam locomotives built between 1914 and 1928 for the PRR, where they served as the primary main line passenger steam locomotives on the entire PRR system until late 1957.
