New Niquero Sugar Company 2-4-2 Locomotives in Cuba


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class 5 (Locobase 13630)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54 p. 37. See also Cesar J Ayala, American sugar kingdom: the plantation economy of the Spanish Caribbean 1898-1934 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). Works number was 41675 in September 1914.

Identical to a pair of locomotives delivered to Brazil almost 20 years earlier (Locobase 12166), the only real change in the 5 was an increase in boiler pressure. New Niquero was another of the Cuban American Sugar Company's many plantations. Ayala notes (p. 81) that it was a big estate, controlling about 67,000 acres of land (and 8,500 acres of colono cane) near Manzanillo in eastern Cuba. Its internal railroad system, on which the 5 served, led directly to its own seaport.

After the 1959 Revolucion and nationalization, the Nuevo Niquero would be renamed for Roberto Ramirez Delgado.

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class5
Locobase ID13630
RailroadNew Niquero Sugar Company
CountryCuba
Whyte2-4-2ST
Number in Class1
Road Numbers5
Gauge3'
Number Built1
BuilderBaldwin
Year1914
Valve GearStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)4 / 1.22
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)15 / 4.57
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.27
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)15 / 4.57
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)22,000 / 9979
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)36,000 / 16,329
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)36,000 / 16,329
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)400 / 1.52
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)18 / 9
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)37 / 940
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)160 / 11
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)9" x 14" / 229x356
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)4168 / 1890.58
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 5.28
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)55 - 1.75" / 44
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m) 6.82 / 2.08
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)27 / 2.51
Grate Area (sq ft / m2) 6.30 / 0.59
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)197 / 18.30
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)197 / 18.30
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume191.11
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation1008
Same as above plus superheater percentage1008
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area4320
Power L13178
Power MT636.93

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