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WLE 2-8-4 #6404 - Wheeling & Lake Erie |
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Beautiful 1937 Alco built 2-8-4 Berkshire (bldr #66832) doing a job it was built to do - a coal drag. The loco was absorbed into the Nickel Plate and renumbered as NKP 6404 in 1949. Three years later it was renumbered again as #804. Eventually it was scrapped between 1961-63. According to www.steamlocomotive.com "These represented Superpower design at its peak - big boilers and grates, long-stroke cylinders, lots of superheat, and relatively tall drivers to deliver the freight at speeds only dreamt of 25 years earlier." Specs - 69" drivers, impressive 245 psi boiler pressure, 25x34" cylinders, engine weight of 413,170 lb, tractive effort of 64,135 lb. Max Miller photo |
| Photo Date: |
9/22/1937 Upload Date: 4/12/2016 5:05:33 PM |
| Location: |
Harmon, OH |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
WLE 6404(2-8-4) |
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332 Comments: 2 |
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WLE 6404/NKP 804 New to the site. |
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Location is correct but the date is approximate. Renumbered 3/52. Last steam engine repaired at Brewster shop 6/55. Stored at Conneaut 10/57.Scrapped 3/30/62 at Luntz Iron & Steel. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1949 Upload Date: 5/8/2012 7:11:53 PM |
| Location: |
Fremont, OH |
| Author: |
Wendy Crim |
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| Locomotives: |
WLE 6404(2-8-4) NKP 804(2-8-4) |
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828 Comments: 2 |
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