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| | Steamtown NHS: Special History Study |
 | | Woodard's and Lima's first effort was simply a bigger and better 2-8-2, with the same cylinder and firebox dimensions as the "U.S.R.A." engine design, but with larger boiler, front end throttle, Baker valve gear, the recently developed Type E superheater, and a feedwater heater. |
 | | Turned out by Lima in February 1925 for a New York Central System subsidiary, the Boston and Albany, in tests between Albany, New York and West Springfield, Massachusetts, the new 2-8-4 successfully hauled 2,500 tons unassisted by helper engines across the Taconic Mountains of western Massachusetts, known regionally as the Berkshire Hills. |
 | | But it was the Lima Locomotive Works, noted especially as a builder of Shay patent-geared locomotives used primarily by logging and mining railroads, that had built the first Berkshires, and it was Lima, now builder of many fine main line steam locomotives, that won subsequent orders for Berkshire-type locomotives from the Nickel Plate. |
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