List of Awesome Types of Locomotives

Below is a list of some of my favourite kinds of locomotives and their classes, when they were built, their wheel configuration, and how fast they can go.

I discovered the, , , , , , , , , , , and  because certain engines of Thomas and Friends - Skarloey, Rheneas, James, Thomas, Jinty, Spencer, Bill and Ben, Rusty, Wilbert,  Diesel, 'Arry and Bert, and Splatter and Dodge, Diesel 10, and Derek - are based on these classes.

Although I have officially grown out of Thomas and Friends, I still haven't completely abandoned it permanently. This is partly due to my interest in characters, and my interest in locomotives. The rest of the classes that are featured here I discovered in 2010 while reading through this book of locomotives, with the exception of the Minerva Kerr Stuart  ' Victory '  0-6-0T Class,, and which I discovered sometime in 2017, and the  which I discovered perhaps as early as 2002, and no later than 2004.