Also known as the South Shore Belt Line, the N&SS served industrial sites in the Cleveland area. Only 7 main-line miles long, it was completed in 1904 as a wholly owned railroad of the US Steel Corporation.
A photo of #31 published on the Cleveland Memory website (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/nssbk/nss065.html, visited 18 Feb 2003) shows a stubby, big-boilered Mogul that looks like a switcher with a leading truck. But it had a superheater and big-time piston valves and valve gear.
The N&SS sold 31 to locomotive rebuilder and reseller Birmingham Rail & Locomotive in 1936, which sold it to Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Apparently, YS & T soon sold it to the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern because it appears in the 1938 edition of that railroad's diagram book.
32 went to American Sheet & Tinplate in the same year. The N&SS was the first Ohio railroad to retire all of its steam locomotives, accomplishing that turnover in 1947. 33 was part of that changeover, being retired in 1946.
In 1951, the Bessemer & Lake Erie took over ownership. Declining business culminated in the closure of the Cuyahoga Steel Works in 1984 with abandonment of the line coming 2 years later. (Information from Encyclopedia of Cleveland History website http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=NSSR, visited 18 February 2003)
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Class | 31 |
| Locobase ID | 5398 |
| Railroad | Newburgh & South Shore |
| Whyte | 2-6-0 |
| Road Numbers | 31 |
| Gauge | Std |
| Builder | Baldwin |
| Year | 1915 |
| Valve Gear | Walschaert |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase | 11.50' |
| Engine Wheelbase | 20' |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheebase | 0.57 |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) | 50.45' |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) | |
| Weight on Drivers | 163800 lbs |
| Engine Weight | 185500 lbs |
| Tender Light Weight | 99500 lbs |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight | 285000 lbs |
| Tender Water Capacity | 5000 gals |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) | 12 tons |
| Minimum weight per yard of rail on which locomotive could run | 91 lb rail |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter | 52" |
| Boiler Pressure | 180 psi |
| Cylinders (dia x stroke) | 23" x 26" |
| Tractive Effort | 40469 lbs |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | 4.05 |
| Heating Ability | |
| Firebox Area | 190 sq. ft |
| Grate Area | 50 sq. ft |
| Evaporative Heating Surface | 2256 |
| Superheating Surface | 494 |
| Combined Heating Surface | 2750 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 180.44 |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 9000 |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | 10620 |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | 40356 |
| Power L1 | 9548 |
| Power MT | 385.53 |
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