2-8-4 lines. The JNR rebuilt a total of 104 locomotives to the 2-8-4 wheel arrangement from its older 2-8-2 Mikado classes, the Class D50, Class D51 and Class D52. Some of these locomotives survived in service up to the end of steam traction on the JNR in 1974. In 1951, Mexico’s "Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México" (N de M) bought five 2-8-4 locomotives, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1940, from Norfolk Southern Railway in the United States of America (USA), where they had become redundant due to dieselisation. Before their arrival in Mexico, all five went through a complete major overhaul
Minim, Martap Minim, Martap Minim (or Minim II, or Menim) is a village in the commune of , in the department of Vina, in the Adamawa Region, Cameroon. The village contains Cameroon's main source of bauxite. In 1967, Minim contained 90 inhabitants, mostly from the Kaka ethnic group. In the 2005 census, the settlement contained 432 people. Along with Ngaoundal, Minim is part of a large project to mine the bauxite of the Adamawa Plateau. Covering an area of 1000 km, the deposit represents an important component of the Adamawa plateau and the gentle slopes which surround it make it easy to