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25: 204:. The locomotive was too large to work elsewhere in the system. Pennsylvania Railroad executive hoped that the locomotive could haul 1,000 tons at 100 miles per hour, which were exceeded in a December 1940 test run which reached 101 mph with 1,350 tons being pulled. While it was capable of very high speeds, no firm documentary evidence has so far surfaced to confirm the record 133 mph run cited in the December 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine which, if true, would make this locomotive the fastest steam locomotive ever built. 90: 1093: 54: 1088: 267: 225: 76: 47: 972: 967: 979: 185: 197: 1114: 600: 192:, the longest and heaviest rigid frame reciprocating steam locomotive ever built and is referred to as the 960: 950: 235: 610: 245: 260: 37: 955: 593: 41: 33: 1119: 989: 921: 792: 681: 157: 142: 58: 1083: 1069: 181: 148: 929: 253: 222:"Riding the Gargantua of the Rails" by Roderick M. Grant, Popular Mechanics (December 1941) 166: 8: 226:
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The Pennsylvania Railroad's lone S1 was the only 6-4-4-6 ever constructed.
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Loco Profile 24: Pennsylvania Duplexii by Brian Reed (June 1972)
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steam locomotive
Whyte notation
locomotive
wheel arrangements
leading wheels
driving wheels
trailing wheels
UIC classification
Italian classification
French classification
Turkish classification
Swiss classification
Pennsylvania Railroad
S1
duplex locomotive
1939 New York World's Fair
Crestline, Ohio
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http://www.crestlineprr.com/duplexexperimentals.html
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