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The Union Railroad was a switching and transfer line owned by U.S. Steel, serving a number of plants in the area and connecting with six trunk line railroads. Operation was only at low speed, thus a leading truck's stability was not required.
30 lis 2022 · The biggest was the Union Railroad’s unique 0-10-2, dubbed the “Union” type, weighing in at 644,510 pounds and delivering 90,000 pounds of tractive force, with another 17,150 pounds available from its booster.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-10-2 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and two trailing wheels on one axle (usually in a trailing truck).
Union Railroad 0-10-2 "Union" Locomotives in the USA. Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media. Class U-108b/S7 (Locobase 5976)
1 lut 2017 · Ten of these U-108b Class locomotives were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Union Railroad in 1936, the only 0-10-2s built new for a US railroad. They were consequently dubbed “Union” type locomotives.
Baldwin Locomotive Works manufactured ten 0-10-2 trains between 1936 and 1939, all for the Union Railroad, a subsidiary of US Steel. Numbered 301-310, these locomotives were specifically ordered without pilot wheels in order to make sure the locomotive would fit on the railroad’s 70-foot turntables.
2 mar 2024 · In this video, we take a look at one of the more obscure locomotives of American railroading - the 0-10-2!!
