Pixcompare5/16/2023 The JS 2-8-2, of which only one example made it to the states, Boone & Scenic Valley 8419, has an American look but was the result of a cooperative effort between China and the Soviet Union. The SY 2-8-2 owes its heritage to a series of Alco Mikados supplied to Japanese occupied Korea in the 1920s. For more information on the FD and LV in China see: and The LV-class is almost a dead ringer for the QJ 2-10-2. Several were preserved, including the first OR18-01 and the last LV-0522. The first prototype was named OR18-01 (October Revolution factory, 18 tonne axle load). It used a feedwater heater to increase thermal efficiency and it was the most efficient freight steam locomotive in the Soviet Union with thermal efficiency of 9.3%. The LV class was developed from the previous L-class 2-10-0 locomotive by the Voroshilovgrad factory. A much lesser number were sold to North Korea around the same time. In 1958, 1,054 FDs were sold to China, where they worked until the 1980s. The FD class was developed from ALCO and Baldwin heavy freight locomotives imported to Soviet Russia, where they were designated as Ta and Tb class respectively. Two series were relatively common, the FD (for Felix Dzerzhinsky) with more than 3000 built through the 1930s, and the LV (Lebedyanskii, modified by the Voroshilovgrad factory). To quote from Wikipedia " In the Soviet Union 2-10-2 type locomotives were used to haul heavy freight trains. The QJ 2-10-2's can be viewed as the logical development of the Russian FD Class 2-10-2's. But the two types of Chinese locomotives that most Americans are familiar with have a distinctly US look to them that is the result of their linage as noted by xtra1188w. And yes, there is a privately owned 2-foot gauge South African Garratt in Texas. You can't Americanize a Garratt (although Alco did hold the US patent rights), so no one would even begin to try. > Is there one of them in Texas? Something Iĭon, that was my point. I'm not sure how you can Americanize a Garrett?
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