Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains/Locomotives task force

Mistake

I accidentally changed the information on two preserved British Rail Class 50s, I meant to change the location of the two trains hired by arriva trains wales (location was severn valley railway, when they are currently stored at the sidings of canton railway depot (I go past there every day on another train) and are (currently) rarely used on services to rhymney. Backifran (talk) 09:22, February 18, 2007 (UTC)

How was the Cameroonian version of the South West African 2-8-0T called?

Captured by the French, 1917

A 2-8-0T O&K locomotive of the de:Bahnstrecke Duala–Nkongsamba was apparently identical to the aforementioned locomotive for German SW Africa apart from the dust shields, but I was not able to Google anything about the type, so I had to tentatively categorize the image in a SW African category, even though I was also able to find a photo of a similar tender locomotive related to South West African 2-8-0 at http://transpressnz.blogspot.com/2016/01/captured-german-train-in-cameroon.html. Unfortunately the author of the articles on those locomotives has deceased, is anyone else interested in the topic? Ain92 (talk) 14:36, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Capitalization of "class"

I noticed there seems to be some inconsistency across locomotive class articles. In some cases, "class" is capitalized, as in GWR 4073 Class, and in others it is not, as in Southern Pacific class AC-12 and Pennsylvania Railroad K4 class. I could not find a style guideline for this issue, but I note that Wikipedia styles ship classes consistently as lowercase (see WP:NCS), apparently regardless of how it appears in sources. With a number of extant locomotive articles departing from casing guidelines (MOS:SECTIONCAPS, WP:HEADERS), I suspect the main issue is inconsistent application of Wikipedia style, and the articles should be retitled from X Class to X class (or X class in cases where the class is named for one of its members), but I wanted to check here in case I was missing something. Ibadibam (talk) 20:24, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

I have a feeling it may be a UK/US thing - the article List of British Rail diesel multiple unit classes shows them to have Class (the 'classes' in the title, to my understanding, would just be the plural form). Across the pond, looking at gives the impression that it is not capitalised in the US. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 20:39, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

New Locomotive Add-In

Hello Greater Train Wikipedia. I am working on cleaning up some Rolling stock information on the new Tanzanian Railway and I was not sure how to approach something. The new Tanzania Railways Limited SGR Line uses these "E6800" - "01" type serial number for their locomotives. They are Hyundai Rotem made and as far as I can tell, fairly identical to the TCDD E68000 locomotive. What is the move here? Does the Tanzania variant get its own page, or, should it just be linked to the turkish one. Sputink (talk) 17:27, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Proposed for deletion (PROD): Grand Trunk Western 5030

FYI, the article Grand Trunk Western 5030 has been proposed for deletion (WP:PROD). The first sentences summarize the subject this way:

• "The Grand Trunk Western 5030 is a Class J-3b 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1912 for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad… As of 2023, No. 5030 is awaiting an eventual restoration to operating condition by the Colebrookdale Railroad for use in tourist excursion service."

The nominator wrote this summary of their concerns:

• "Lacks reliable secondary sources, really needs to be fleshed out with proper sourcing. This article fails GNG."

If you agree or disagree with deletion, there are instructions on the deletion notice for what to do.

Thanks, --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 02:24, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Rewrite of JGR Class 150 from ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車 on Japanese Wikipedia

(I understand this is better suited to Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains in Japan, where I have also posted this, but that project has recently been marked as Inactive, and I'm not sure that I will find anyone to help there.)

I have just finished rewriting the locomotive article JGR Class 150 almost completely, basing the rewrite on a translation of the Japanese version ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車, including its list of sources cited. However, I have made many further edits for style and content, including rearranging some portions of text, and I also omitted a few parts of the Japanese version (mostly concerning appearances in modern media) as probably not wanted on the English Wikipedia.

I am still pretty sure about the basic correctness of the results, but I really want people to look this over, particularly people knowledgeable of Japanese railways and people fluent in both Japanese and English. My Japanese ability is, in my own judgment, non-existent; while I have learned some features of the language on my own, and I do know bits of vocabulary, I've never been anywhere near Japan and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't so much as read a road sign or ask a cop for help on my own. I'm utterly dependant on machine tools like Google Translate (carefully applied and checked — I'm well aware that it can't be simply trusted as is!), the "10ten" dictionary-lookup browser plugin (an invaluable aid), and Google Lens (for OCR-reading graphical Japanese text) to do something like this.

Unfortunately, the original Japanese article does not have inline citations of its sources, and none of those sources are online anyway (they're rather old and Japanese-only), so I haven't been able to check them directly. Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 08:22, 15 August 2024 (UTC)