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South African Class 24 2-8-4 : ウィキペディア英語版 | South African Class 24 2-8-4
The South African Railways Class 24 2-8-4 of 1949 is a steam locomotive. In 1949 and 1950 the South African Railways placed one hundred branchline steam locomotives with a 2-8-4 Berkshire type wheel arrangement in service.〔South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2’0” & 3’6” Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended〕 ==Manufacturer== The Class 24 2-8-4 Berkshire type branchline steam locomotive was designed by Dr. M.M. Loubser, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1939 to 1949. The locomotives were built by North British Locomotive Company (NBL) of Glasgow, who delivered one hundred of them in 1949 and 1950, numbered in the range from 3601 to 3700. The cast engine main frames and the Buckeye bogies for the tenders were supplied by General Steel Castings of Eddystone, Pennsylvania.〔〔North British Locomotive Company works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser〕 One of these locomotives, Class 24 number 3675, was the two thousandth locomotive to be built by NBL for the SAR and, to commemorate this, a ceremony was conducted in Cape Town to name the locomotive ''Bartolomeu Dias'', after the famous Portuguese navigator who discovered the Cape of Good Hope in May 1488 and named it the "Cape of Storms" ''(Cabo das Tormentas)''. The ceremony was attended by the South African Minister of Transport and heads of departments of the SAR, as well as by the chairman and managing director of NBL.〔
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