Steam Locomotive 4-4-0, Vintage American Type Train Model

A classic 19th century style steam locomotive with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement: a four-wheel leading truck, two large driving wheels joined by side rods, a long banded boiler with two domes and a sand box, a tall flared funnel stack, a front lamp, a slatted cowcatcher pilot and a cab with round front windows and a curved roof. The 4-4-0, often called the American type, was the most common locomotive on North American railways from the 1850s to the 1890s and is the engine many people picture from…

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