Norfolk Lumber Company 2-6-2 "Prairie" Locomotives in the USA


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class 3 (Locobase 13710)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 36. p. 121. (Thanks to Chris Hohl for his 31 December 2014 email giving the tender fuel capacity and his March 2015 email noting Locobase's typographic doubling of that figure. ) Works number was 35506 in November 1910.

After some years on this logging road, the wood-burning (tender capacity of 3 cords) 3 was sold to Camp Manufacturing as their #30

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class3
Locobase ID13710
RailroadNorfolk Lumber Company
CountryUSA
Whyte2-6-2
Number in Class1
Road Numbers3
GaugeStd
Number Built1
BuilderBaldwin
Year1911
Valve GearStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)8 / 3.35
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)22.75 / 6.48
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.35
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) / 14
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)56,000 / 25,401
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)77,000 / 34,473
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)50,500 / 19,958
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)127,500 / 54,431
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)2500 / 7.58
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) / 3
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)31 / 15.50
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)44 / 1067
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)160 / 11.70
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)13" x 22" / 330x559
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)11,492 / 5212.69
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 4.87
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)116 - 2" / 51
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)11.50 / 3.51
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)74 / 6.87
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)13.30 / 1.24
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)767 / 71.26
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)767 / 71.26
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume226.92
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation2128
Same as above plus superheater percentage2128
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area11,840
Power L13947
Power MT466.16

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