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1218 fue un año común comenzado en lunes del calendario juliano. Acontecimientos. Fundación de la Universidad de Salamanca. Pedro Nolasco funda la Orden de Santa María de la Merced. Corea es invadida por las tropas de Gengis Kan. La Orden de la Merced fue fundada por San Pedro Nolasco en Cataluña , en 1218.
Year 1218 ( MCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. By place. Fifth Crusade. May 24 – A Crusader expeditionary force, (some 30,000 men) under King John I of Jerusalem, embarks at Acre (supported by Frisian ships), and sails for Egypt.
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No. 1218 is the sole survivor of the Norfolk and Western's class A locomotives and the only surviving 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive in the world. While smaller than Union Pacific's famous and more numerous "Challenger" class of 4-6-6-4 locomotives, Norfolk and Western's design racked up unmatched records of performance in service. During No. 1218's excu...
Revenue service and preservation
No. 1218 was the ninth member of the second batch of fifteen class A locomotives (Nos. 1210–1224) built in June 1943 at the East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia by the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). It was initially assigned to haul fast freight trains, heavy coal trains, and even heavy passenger trains on the N&W's Scioto Division, between Williamson, West Virginia and Columbus, Ohio, along with an occasional side trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. In the late 1950s, No. 1218 was moved to the Norf...
Excursion service
In 1982, the N&W and Southern (SOU) railways were both merged to form the new Norfolk Southern Railway (NS). Additionally, No. 1218's feedwater pump was removed to replace the damaged one on ex-N&W J Class No. 611, which was restored to operating condition for excursion service on the NS steam program, which started in 1966 by the SOU. By the end of 1984, the NS steam program, needed a more stronger and powerful steam locomotive to pull the longer and heavier excursion trains along with assis...
Current disposition
At the end of the 1991 excursion season, after completing a round-trip excursion from Huntsville, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee, No. 1218 returned to Irondale, Alabama for an extensive overhaul, where its flues need to be replaced and the portions of the firebox need to be repaired. There were originally plans to have the No. 1218 locomotive running again for the beginning of the 1996 excursion season, but NS chairman David R. Goode cancelled the steam program in 1994 due to serious safet...
King, Ed (2009). The A: Norfolk and Western's Mercedes of Steam (2nd ed.). N&W Historical Society. ISBN 978-0970479464.Rosenburg, Ron; Archer, Eric H. (1973). Norfolk & Western Steam (The Last 25 Years) (1st ed.). Quadrant Press Inc. ISBN 0-915276-00-3.Withuhn, Bill (September 1987). "1218: Home to Roanoke". Trains. Vol. 47, no. 11. Kalmbach Publishing. pp. 26–33.Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AL-39, "Norfolk & Southern Steam Locomotive No. 1218, Norris Yards, Irondale, Jefferson County, AL", 5 photos, 1 photo caption page- June 2, 1943
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1219 ( MCCXIX) fue un año común comenzado en martes del calendario juliano . Acontecimientos. 14 de enero En Navarra, el rey Sancho VII el Fuerte refunda Viana convirtiéndola en villa, otorgándole el Fuero del Águila.
año / De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre. 1218 ( MCCXVIII) fue un año común comenzado en lunes del calendario juliano. Año 1218. Años. 1215 • 1216 • 1217 ← 1218 → 1219 • 1220 • 1221. Decenios. Años 1180 • Años 1190 • Años 1200 ← Años 1210 → Años 1220 • Años 1230 • Años 1240. Siglos.
Temas, acontecimientos y noticias relacionados con el año 1218 . Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre el año 1218. Wikisource contiene obras originales sobre el año 1218.
Contents. hide. Beginning. Events. 1218 was a common year. Events. Damietta is besieged by the knights of the Fifth Crusade. Livonian Brothers of the Sword begin to conquer Estonia. Minamoto no Sanetomo becomes Minister of the Right ( udaijin) of Japan. Alfonso IX of Castile founds a university in Salamanca. Category: 1218.
