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TODAY'S DAILY KNOWLEDGE WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND MACKENZIE!!! :D august 16th, 2024: the 4-8-2 "mountain" type of steam locomotive originated in the Colony of Natal in the early 1900s. (1/5)
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it'd eventually make its way to the US, first being built by american locomotive builders ALCo and Baldwin in 1911. the first ones were basically stretched 2-8-2 "mikados" with four-wheel pilot trucks for better stability at speed, but later ones were much more of their own thing... (2/5)