The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 was a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by Lima Locomotive Works between 1941 and 1948 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which nicknamed them Allegheny. They were meant as the ultimate expression of Lima's Superpower philosophy: the six-wheel trailing truck allowed a longer, deeper firebox, and the boiler was the largest that would fit the railway's clearances. Starting tractive effort was calculated at 110,200 pounds-force, and dynamometer readings showed peak output of 6,500 to 7,500 horsepower at 40 to 50 miles per hour. They also carried the heaviest axle load of any steam locomotive. Retirement began in 1952 and the last fire was dropped in 1956; two engines, Nos. 1601 and 1604, were preserved.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
Design and performance, stoker
Coal was carried to and distributed within the firebox via a Standard Stoker Company type MB automatic stoker
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With the advent of dieselization in the early 1950s, retirement of the class started in 1952 and ran until the last fire was dropped in 1956.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
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the H-8s hauled fast, heavy freight trains for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway until the mid-1950s
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the H-8s hauled fast, heavy freight trains for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway until the mid-1950s
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