Iraqi Railway 4wVBT No. RM2
Baghdad, Iraq 		Location: Shalchiyah Workshops
Status: Display
Posted: Apr 15, 2025 @ 14:04:38 by Steve Frost, European Editor
This is a typical Sentinel product. With Sentinel's vertical boiler in the cab. With its cross tubes that flashed water to steam, they could soon reach operating pressure. Often they had a two cylinder vertically mounted engine driving the small wheels through heavy duty chains. I wonder if, in the Iraqi environment, they were oil fired.

They were usually used for yard work as, being low geared, they could handle quite heavy loads. But they were no high speed machine - 10 to 15 mph would be the norm. If you find this an interesting machine that is in an interesting location, go to the search option and look for the manufacturer to see other examples that have been preserved, including some where you will see the boiler and the engine.