4-6-4
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4-6-4, under the Whyte notation for the classification of locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. In Fran
NGR Class H 4-6-4T, SAR Class C2
Victorian Railways R class
West Coast Railway R class 711
Canadian Pacific 2816 at Steamtown, U.S.A. in Vermont
New York Central Hudson
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The New York Central Hudson was a popular 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotive built for the New York Central Railroad. 275 of them were built in three different classes between 1927 and 1938 by the A
4-6-4
…of the New York Central Railroad, was built in 1927 to the railroad's design by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). There, the type was named the Hudson after the Hudson River. They are also designed to pull 16-18 passenger cars in passenger service. The world speed record for steam locomotives was held…
A promotional image of New York Central streamlined Dreyfuss Hudson No. 5453 in the late 1930s
J-1 class No. 5296 in Chesterton, Indiana
Streamlined J-3a Hudson at the 1939 New York World's Fair
#5344 Commodore Vanderbilt (the last J-1e) featured Art Deco streamlining designed by Carl F. Kantola when introduced in 1934 (here in 1935, Chicago Board of Trade Building in background). By no later than 1939, it had been re-shrouded with the Art Deco streamlining designed by Henry Dreyfuss for the J-3 Super Hudsons.