South African Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4 South African Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4 The South African Railways Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1954 was an articulated steam locomotive. In 1954, the South African Railways placed 25 Class GO light branch line tank-and-tender Garratt articulated steam locomotives with a Double Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. It was the last new steam locomotive type to be acquired by the Railways. The Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4 tank-and-tender Garratt locomotive was designed to operate on lighter rails. The designs were prepared in 1952 under the supervision of L.C. Grubb, the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the SAR from 1949 to 1954, and an
Minim (religious order) Ecuador, Rome, and Nogales, Arizona. Minim (religious order) The Minims (also called the Minimi or Order of Minims, abbreviated O.M.) are members of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The Order soon spread to France, Germany and Spain, and continues to exist today. Like the other mendicant Orders, there are three separate components, or Orders, of the movement: the friars, contemplative nuns and a Third Order of laypeople who live in the spirit of the Order in their daily lives. At present there are only two fraternities of the Minim