Wholly owned by the WT Carter & Brother lumber company, the MC & SA ran for 6.8 miles in St Augustine county in East Texas. This little Consolidation served the railway as a switcher for decades, leaving service in 1956 with 90,000 miles on its boiler.
The museum comments that this locomotive will probably never run again because it has a riveted boiler, which were outlawed in Bexar County in 1925. Georgetown, Texas volunteers had planned to restore it, but the engine was delivered to the TTM in 1984.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Class | 6 |
| Locobase ID | 5587 |
| Railroad | Moscow, Camden & St Augustine |
| Whyte | 2-8-0 |
| Road Numbers | 6 |
| Gauge | Std |
| Builder | Baldwin |
| Year | 1911 |
| Valve Gear | Stephenson |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase | 12.50' |
| Engine Wheelbase | 19.33' |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheebase | 0.65 |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) | 45.46' |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) | |
| Weight on Drivers | 83000 lbs |
| Engine Weight | 93000 lbs |
| Tender Light Weight | 52000 lbs |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight | 145000 lbs |
| Tender Water Capacity | 3000 gals |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) | 1200 gals |
| Minimum weight per yard of rail on which locomotive could run | 35 lb rail |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter | 44" |
| Boiler Pressure | 170 psi |
| Cylinders (dia x stroke) | 16" x 24" |
| Tractive Effort | 20177 lbs |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | 4.11 |
| Heating Ability | |
| Firebox Area | 115 sq. ft |
| Grate Area | 19.80 sq. ft |
| Evaporative Heating Surface | 1158 |
| Superheating Surface | |
| Combined Heating Surface | 1158 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 207.34 |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 3366 |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | 3366 |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | 19550 |
| Power L1 | 3868 |
| Power MT | 410.96 |
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