Tags: Locomotive.
The New York Central Railroad’s Niagara was a steam locomotive named after the Niagara River and Falls. It had a wheel arrangement of 4-8-4 in the Whyte notation and is considered as one of the most efficient 4-8-4 ever built.The first New York Central Railroad Northern (or 4-8-4) was ordered in 1931: #800 an experimental locomotive that had its boiler divided into three sections of different pressure.