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Category. : 2-10-4 locomotives. Help. Front of locomotive at left. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2-10-4 locomotives. Locomotives classified 2-10-4 under the Whyte notation of locomotive axle arrangements. The equivalent UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements is 1E2 or 1'E2'.
South Africa. Between 1899 and 1903, the Natal Government Railways (NGR) placed 101 4-10-2 tank locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed by G.W. Reid, the Locomotive Superintendent of the NGR at the end of the nineteenth century, and built in Scotland by Dübs and Company and the newly established North British Locomotive Company.
The 2-10-4 Texas wheel arrangement originated and was principally used in the United States. The evolution of this locomotive type began as a 2-10-2 Santa Fe type with a larger four-wheeled trailing truck that would allow an enlarged firebox. A subsequent development was as an elongated 2-8-4 Berkshire type that required extra driving wheels to ...
Technician fourth grade. The T/4 insignia of a letter "T" below three chevrons. Technician fourth grade (abbreviated T/4 or Tec 4) was a rank of the United States Army from 1942 to 1948. [1] The rank was created to recognize enlisted soldiers with special technical skills, but who were not trained as combat leaders. [2] [3]
4-10-0. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels. Central Pacific Railroad 's El Gobernador, built in 1883, was the only locomotive with this wheel arrangement to operate in the United States.
The 4-4-2T is the tank locomotive equivalent of a 4-4-0 American type tender locomotive, but with the frame extended to allow for a fuel bunker behind the cab. This necessitated the addition of a trailing truck to support the additional weight at the rear end of the locomotive. As such, the tank version of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement appeared ...
Mode X. Mode X is an alternative 256-color graphics display mode of the IBM VGA graphics hardware that was popularized by Michael Abrash. The primary advantage of Mode X is that it has square pixels: a resolution of 320 × 240 instead of the standard VGA Mode 13h which is 320 × 200. It is enabled by entering Mode 13h via an MS-DOS system call ...
June 12, 2024 at 7:51 PM. CHICAGO (AP) — Alyssa Thomas scored 10 of her 20 points in the fourth quarter, Brionna Jones scored 14 of her 18 in the first half and the Connecticut Sun beat the ...