Goytisolo, Montalvo & Cia 2-6-0 Locomotives in Cuba


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class 1 (Locobase 11821)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 12, p 13 Works number was 7073 in December 1883.

J & G Fowler was the purchasing agent for this small Mogul, which operated on a Cuban sugar plantation. Locobase suspects that other 2-6-0s supplied to Maicas & Company in the 1890s were either identical or at least very similar in their dimensions and weights. See Degolyer Volumes 18, p. 104 and 19, pp. 157-158, 160. Works numbers were 13033 in November 1892 (Central Santa Teresa), 14123 in October 1894 for Central Resulta, 14124 for San Lino.

NB: See Fernando Ortfz , Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el az+car (Cuban counterpoint of tobacco and sugar) (Caracas, Venezuela: Maria Gonzalez De Salcedo y Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1978, originally published in 1940), esp. pp. 52-53 for a concise description of the "transformation" in sugar production wrought by the widespread adoption of steam to power both mill machinery and the railways that allowed deeper penetration into virgin lands that "extended without end toward the cane and captured it with tentacles of an immense spiderweb of steel." (Locobase's translation from Spanish).

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
Class1
Locobase ID11821
RailroadGoytisolo, Montalvo & Cia
CountryCuba
Whyte2-6-0
Number in Class1
Road Numbers1
Gauge2'6"
Number Built5
BuilderBurnham, Parry, Williams & Co
Year1883
Valve GearStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) 8.33 / 2.54
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)14.33 / 4.37
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.58
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)1000 / 3.79
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)36 / 914
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)130 / 900
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)11" x 16" / 279x406
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)5942 / 2695.25
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort)
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)94 - 1.5" / 38
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m) 7.73 / 2.36
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)41.37 / 3.84
Grate Area (sq ft / m2) 7.70 / 0.72
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)323 / 30.01
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)323 / 30.01
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume183.54
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation1001
Same as above plus superheater percentage1001
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area5378
Power L12348
Power MT

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