Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1918 and 1922 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 73 Class 14C 4-8-2 steam locomotives in service. Through reboilerings and rebalancings during their service life this single class eventually ended up as six different locomotive classes. As a result of wartime disruption in Europe and Britain,...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1918 and 1922 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 73 Class 14C 4-8-2 steam locomotives in service. Through reboilerings and rebalancings during their service life this single class eventually ended up as six different locomotive classes. As a result of wartime disruption in Europe and Britain, the fourth version of the Class 14 locomotive was ordered from the Montreal Locomotive Works in Canada in 1918. It became the Class 14C and was delivered in four batches between 1918 and 1922. While these locomotives were built to the specifications of then Chief Mechanical Engineer D.A. Hendrie, they were designed by Montreal Locomotive Works and the result was a locomotive with some typical American characteristics.
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В 1914 году европейские державы неумолимо сползали к войне, затягивая с собой в воронку этого разрушительного конфликта весь Ближний Восток. В своей книге Юджин Роган представляет историю Первой мировой войны, раскрывая последствия, к которым она привела на Ближнем Востоке, и ту решающую — но малоизвестную у нас — роль, которую сыграл в ней регион. Известный британский историк живо и увлекательно...
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