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Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:47:24 GMT
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Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> On a related topic, which steam engine (out of all the ones ever made) had
> the most number of driving wheels? the most total # of wheels?
Looking at this web site:
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/largest.html
which since it doesn't specifically have a category for most driving
wheels, may not include the engine with the most driving wheels (though
one would expect such an engine to rank in the top 10 by at least one of
weight, power, or overall length), would suggest that there are several
(all with 24 driven wheels):
N&W Jawn Henry C+C+C+C
Virginian X-A 2-8-8-8-4
Erie P-1 2-8-8-8-2
The Virginian X-A would seem to be the best candidate for most number of
wheels, powered and unpowered, at 30 wheels total.
This is still in some ways a trick question. Some railroads have
multi-unit diesels which are essentially permanently coupled, so could
in some ways be argued as a single engine. I'm not sure if this was ever
done with steam power.
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 | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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| For steam engines with the most total wheels I think the title might go to some of the Garratt locomotives in Africa and Australia. Some of them had wheel arrangements of 4-8-4+4-8-4 for a total of 32. Only 16 of the wheels were powered however. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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