Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Streamlined steam lcocomotive on Soviet centennial railway poster, 1938

This features locomotive IS20-16 with streamline casing at the locomotive factory in Voroshilovgrad in 1937. It was the Soviet steam locomotive-champion with maximum speed of 155 km/h (96 mph). The IS 20 used the same cylinders and boilers as the FD series locomotives. However the IS steam locomotive had a 2-8-4 wheel arrangement instead of 2-10-2.

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