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The 2-8-8-2 was a design largely limited to American locomotive builders. The last 2-8-8-2 was retired in 1962 from the N&W's roster, two years past the ending of steam though steam was still used on steel mill lines and other railroads until 1983. A similar wheel arrangemement exists for Garratt locomotives, but is referred to as 2-8-0+0-8-2 ...
Columbo. Columbo ( / kəˈlʌmboʊ /) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [2] [3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie.
ikea .com (retail) Inter IKEA Systems B.V., [6] [7] trading as IKEA ( / aɪˈkiːə / eye-KEE-ə, Swedish: [ɪˈkêːa] ), is a Swedish multinational conglomerate that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad and ...
U.S. airlines collected nearly $6.8 billion in baggage fees in 2022, and $5.5 billion in the first nine months of 2023. The rule requires airlines to inform consumers that seats are guaranteed and ...
Eleanor Terrett. April 29, 2024 at 6:00 AM. EXCLUSIVE: The Securities and Exchange Commission and its chairman, Gary Gensler, appear to have believed for at least a year that the second largest ...
The phenomenon ravaged the U.S. economy in the 1970s and early 1980s as spiking oil prices, rising unemployment and easy monetary policy pushed the consumer price index as high as 14.8% in 1980 ...
Bush, speaking to Melody Maker magazine in 1977. The British record industry was reaching a point of stagnation. Progressive rock was very popular and visually oriented rock performers were growing in popularity, thus record labels looking for the next big thing were considering experimental acts. Bush was put on retainer for two years by Bob Mercer, managing director of EMI's group-repertoire ...
2-8-8-8-4. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-8-8-8-4 has two leading wheels, three sets of eight driving wheels, and four trailing wheels . The equivalent UIC classification is to be refined to (1'D)D (D2') for these engines. Only one 2-8-8-8-4 was ever built, a Mallet -type for the Virginian Railway in ...