Historical Steam
This album contains undated, non location or railway specific historical images of steam on all gauges. Contains builder pictures, ex works, publicity material, vintage advertisements, posters and Indian locomotives in transit and on foreign soil. Also contains pictures of last runs of specific locomotives and last steam haulage on a particular route.
WL class loco. Postcard from the 1960's based on a painting by R V Govindarajulu. Uploaded by Jimmy Jose.
Fireless engine at a warehouse at a jute mill near Calcutta Picture from US Military Railway Service Journal. Near Calcutta, 4 Jan 1944. By David Churchill.
A WM class tank heavy duty locomotive. By From British Locomotive And Allied Manufacturers Association Brochure. Uploaded By Jimmy Jose.
Builder's photo, NWR Mallet. Baldwin, 1926. Scanned by Wp7713.
NWR Mallet. NWR shed, after 1923. Scanned by Wp7713.
Burma Railways, 0-6-6-0 Mallet; 1911. Published 1911. Scan provided by John Lacey.
WIPR Mallet Class IM. Published 1913. Scan provided by John Lacey.
Shantipur line 2-4-0T loco. Makers works?, 1930s. By Makers Official Picture Uploaded By David Churchill.
South India Rly R class Rack and adhesion loco for Nilgiris; 1897 Beyer Peacock. Works, 1897. By Scanned By Wp7713.
Scan of a Canadian newspaper article about the award of contract for building of 120 WP class locomotives (No. 7516-635) to the Canadian Locomotive Works, Kingston in 1955-56. Truncated lines during scan at the bottom are "......force of about 400.
Builder photo of the HP Class 4-6-2 locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia for Jodhpur Railway in 1948. The massive 12-wheeled tender that weighed 65 tons and carried 6000 gallons of water weighed more than the engine in working order
Canadian built WP class M-12 which later became 7337. From a Montreal Locomotive Works card June 1949.
A dated photograph of the Indian delegation with the first prototype WP locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia in 1947.
South India Rly R class Rack and adhesion loco for Nilgiris; 1897 Beyer Peacock. Works, 1897. By Scanned By Wp7713.
YC class Pacific. Works, 1928. By Scanned By Wp7713.
Y3 class 0-8-4 tank locomotives were used for banking services by Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR) on the Thull Ghat. No. 40 of this class was built by North British in 1913.
Baldwin Locomotive Works picture of the prototype YG class 2-8-2 locomotive. This was the tenth locomotive in an order for 120 locomotives built by Baldwin between 1949-50.
Vital Statistics of the prototype YG class 2-8-2 locomotive built by Baldwin in 1949. Baldwin works number 74,483 was BBCIR No. 2510 which in turn became YG 3010 under 1957 All India renumbering scheme
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