4-6-0 Steam Locomotives in Cuba

Cuba Eastern


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class 9 (Locobase 13059)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 30, p. 132. See also Oscar Zanetti Lecuona, Alejandro Garcfa Alvarez, Sugar & railroads: a Cuban history, 1837-1959 ( ), p.233. Works numbers were 28918-28919 in September 1906.

As noted in Locobase 13057, the 8 locomotives intended for the Morelia y Tacambaro in Guanajunto, Mexico were redirected to several other railroads.

Two of these went to the Caribbean for a railroad described by Zanetti & Garcia as "...one of the most fabulous cases of railroad speculation in the history of the neocolony [Cuba after the Cuban Revolution]." Located on the eastern shore of Guantanamo Bay, the 25-mile (40.7-km) railroad connected Boqueron and Sempre. See their discussion of the multiplication of railroad companies formed by the "...group of small-scale capitalists grouped around New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company."

The Panic of 1907 finished off the first round of formation of this "investment ruse". The railroad was reformed as the Guantanamo & Western in 1909.

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
Class9
Locobase ID13059
RailroadCuba Eastern
CountryCuba
Whyte4-6-0
Number in Class2
Road Numbers9-10
GaugeStd
Number Built2
BuilderBurnham, Williams & Co
Year1906
Valve GearStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)14.25 / 4.34
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)24.92 / 7.60
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.57
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)88,000 / 39,916
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)120,000 / 54,431
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)80,000 / 36,287
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)200,000 / 90,718
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)4000 / 15.15
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)49 / 24.50
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)54 / 1372
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)180 / 1240
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)18" x 24" / 457x610
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)22,032 / 9993.56
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 3.99
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)246 - 2" / 51
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)12.87 / 3.92
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)144 / 13.38
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)17.30 / 1.61
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1788 / 166.17
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1788 / 166.17
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume252.95
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation3114
Same as above plus superheater percentage3114
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area25,920
Power L15748
Power MT432.01

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