4-4-0 Steam Locomotives in Cuba

Havana Central


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class 702 (Locobase 15356)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 78, pp. 70+. Works numbers were 58619-58620 in August 1926 and 58631-58634 in September.

These passenger American-type Eight-wheelers combined narrow, deep Belpaire fireboxes and moderate superheater area in some of the last of the arrangement built by Baldwin. The boiler was small, but the superheater supplemented the power of the steam admitted to the cylinders through relatively larger 10" (254 mm) piston valves.

Baldwin didn't have a free hand: "The railway company's drawings to be followed wherever possible." And those specs were derived from the American Locomotive Company engines supplied in the same year to theWestern Railway of Havana.

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
Class702
Locobase ID15356
RailroadHavana Central
CountryCuba
Whyte4-4-0
Number in Class6
Road Numbers702-707
GaugeStd
Number Built6
BuilderBaldwin
Year1925
Valve GearWalschaert
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) 8.50 / 2.59
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)23.42 / 7.14
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.36
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)46.90 / 14.30
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)69,000 / 31,298
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)114,500 / 51,936
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)93,600 / 42,456
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)208,100 / 94,392
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)3500 / 13.26
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)2100 / 7949
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)58 / 29
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)68 / 1727
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)180 / 1240
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)18.5" x 24" / 470x610
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)18,482 / 8383.30
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 3.73
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)102 - 2" / 51
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)16 - 5.375" / 137
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)10.87 / 3.31
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)132 / 12.27
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)17.80 / 1.65
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)951 / 88.38
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)182 / 16.91
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1133 / 105.29
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume127.36
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation3204
Same as above plus superheater percentage3717
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area27,562
Power L18877
Power MT567.26

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