Real 2-4-0 Steam Locomotives

[Roy]

As you know, many toy train sets, especially the least expensive ones, came with 2-4-0 steam locomotives. There actually were many full-size 2-4-0 engines built. Not much seems to be written about them. They don't even have a Whyte designation. Some have called them Porters, and Porter did have a preference for the wheel arrangement. But, many other builders made them, too.

Do you have any favorite real 2-4-0s?

[Roy]

Here's Montezuma, the first locomotive on the three-foot gauge Denver & Rio Grande Railway. This is it's builders photo, taken outside the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1871.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I have this model that in reality is probably supposed to be a 4-4-0, but this is how is came to me and I just touched it up a little.

[HONDO74]

In the 1930s Lionel made a standard gauge model of a 2-4-0 #384

[Roy]

I have this model that in reality is probably supposed to be a 4-4-0, but this is how is came to me and I just touched it up a little.

Well, Porter had a similar engine in their catalogue:



This was the largest of their 2-4-0 offerings, and with it's drivers at the rear, it definitely draws on the 4-4-0 design.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I have this model that in reality is probably supposed to be a 4-4-0, but this is how is came to me and I just touched it up a little.

Well, Porter had a similar engine in their catalogue:



This was the largest of their 2-4-0 offerings, and with it's drivers at the rear, it definitely draws on the 4-4-0 design.

Thanks for posting that photo! Makes my model all the better now! Picked it up along with another small 4-4-0 a few years ago - nice totally scratch engines!

[Roy]

In the 1930s Lionel made a standard gauge model of a 2-4-0 #384

My first Lionel train set had this engine in it. It only had a hand reverse. I don't think it even had a headlight.:

[Roy]

This is one of my favorite 2-4-0s. It's Baldwin, and narrow gauge. I don't know if it ran on a sugar plantation, or at a candy factory.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This is one of my favorite 2-4-0s. It's Baldwin, and narrow gauge. I don't know if it ran on a sugar plantation, or at a candy factory.

Sweet!

[webenda]

UK & Brasil

[Roy]

I think a lot of U.K. 2-4-0s had the unpowered axle mounted in the frame, not in a radial truck.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

(Apparently irrelevant.)

[Roy]

I was hoping this information might be interesting for your topic, Roy, perhaps to compare and to contrast, as well as to consider the part Rogers Locomotive Works played in the history of such locomotives. It is from the Rogers Locomotive Museum site, Paterson, NJ...

Murph, I don't know anything about Rogers. I found this 1897 Rogers catalogue for you, but I didn't see any reference to 2-4-0s in it:

https://archive.org/stream/rogerslocomotive00roge#page/n0/mode/2up

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK, thanks a lot.
Murph

[John Webster]

Thanks for the catalog Roy. That's right in my era of interest.