The Pennsylvania Railroad’s 52 T1 class duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 steam locomotives introduced in 1942 (2 prototypes) and 1945-1946 (50 production) were their last steam locomotives built and their most controversial. They were ambitious technologically sophisticated powerful fast and distinctively streamlined by Raymond Loewy. However they were also prone to violent wheelslip both when starting and at speed complicated to maintain and expensive to run.
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