Data from Google's cache of [] (viewed 4 August 2005). (Thanks to Teemu Koivumaki whose 2023 email included a comprehensive spreadsheet of Brazilian steam locomotive builders, works numbers, and owners.) Works numbers could be 1929-1930 in 1922.
Locobase's command of Portuguese is limited so the long article in the November 1922 Brasil Commercial still holds many secrets. The article did say that Sao Paolo's Tres Pontas could be proud of the railroad it was building between that town and the Sul-Mineira Railway. The writer hoped that other towns would take their cue from Tres Pontas' forward-looking act.
The contract between Tres Pontas and Belgian companies Ougree-Marihaye SA and Les Ateliers Metallurgique de Nivelles SA included the supply of a work train with locomotive, "gyrador", and other equipment. Also included were 40 km of track weighing 18 kilos/metro (38 lb per yard) made of steel with a density of 70 kg/sq mm, other (untranslated) components, and the two locomotives described in the specs.
Locobase estimates the wheel arrangement as there appears to be no exact description of the engines or of the railway gauge. It's rated at a 30 km/hr (18 mph) top speed and a minimum curve radius of 25 meters (82 ft). Elsewhere in the database -- Locobase 6535 -- is a six-coupled tank with almost identical data. As it is an Orenstein & Koppel, likely a catalogue model, the German locomotive may well have had a sister in Brazil.
| Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media | |
|---|---|
| Class | 1/112 |
| Locobase ID | 6709 |
| Railroad | Sao Paulo-Tres Pontas |
| Country | Brazil |
| Whyte | 0-6-0T |
| Number in Class | 2 |
| Road Numbers | 1-2/112-113 |
| Gauge | Metre |
| Number Built | 2 |
| Builder | Tubize |
| Year | 1922 |
| Valve Gear | |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) | |
| Engine Wheelbase (ft / m) | |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase | |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) | |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg) | |
| Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg) | 42,770 / 19,400 |
| Engine Weight (lbs / kg) | 42,770 / 19,400 |
| Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML) | 391 / 1.48 |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) | 2.20 / 2 |
| Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m) | 24 / 12 |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter (in / mm) | 31.50 / 800 |
| Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa) | 174 / 1200 |
| High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm) | 11.81" x 15.75" / 300x400 |
| Tractive Effort (lbs / kg) | 10,314 / 4678.36 |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | 4.15 |
| Heating Ability | |
| Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
| Flues (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
| Flue/Tube length (ft / m) | |
| Firebox Area (sq ft / m2) | 37.66 / 3.50 |
| Grate Area (sq ft / m2) | 7.53 / 0.70 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 452 / 42 |
| Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
| Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 452 / 42 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 226.35 |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 1310 |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | 1310 |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | 6553 |
| Power L1 | 2929 |
| Power MT | 452.93 |