Data from Flanagan, The Cavan & Leitrim Railway (1968), p 114.
This single Prairie tank was the builder's works #555. On the TDR, this was an oil-fired engine using Holden's patented burner design. Starr notes that a 2-6-2T arrangement was uncommon in such operations, but that the ability to run in either direction without using a turntable may have led to its purchase. Perhaps, he notes, but "it always was [turned]!".
According to Simon Starr on the website [] (7 Dec 2004), this engine was well used and pretty much used up by 1902. Its reboilering came in 1906 and raised the engine's operating pressure to 150 psi. Starr continues: "No.5 then had a busy but humdrum existence for a number of years. She was used for a failed experiment in turf burning in 1944 during the massive coal shortages in Ireland at the time, though only managed to reach Emalough before the fire ran out."
5T didn't get to the C&L until 1949, where it saw "...almost constant use."
After the C & L closed in 1959, an American fan bought the 5T and later displayed in Steamtown when that facility was still in Vermont. In 1988 the loco returned to Ireland, where it was restored for the Tralee & Blennerville museum railway.
Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media | |
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Class | 5T |
Locobase ID | 6404 |
Railroad | Tralee & Dingle Light Railway |
Country | Ireland |
Whyte | 2-6-2T |
Number in Class | 1 |
Road Numbers | 5T |
Gauge | 3' |
Number Built | 1 |
Builder | Hunslet Engine Co |
Year | 1892 |
Valve Gear | Stephenson |
Locomotive Length and Weight | |
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) | 10.54 / 3.21 |
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m) | 15.08 / 4.60 |
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase | 0.70 |
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) | 15.08 / 4.60 |
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg) | |
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg) | |
Engine Weight (lbs / kg) | 87,360 / 39,626 |
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg) | |
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg) | |
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML) | 816 / 3.09 |
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) | 1.10 / 1 |
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m) | |
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
Driver Diameter (in / mm) | 36.50 / 927 |
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa) | 140 / 970 |
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm) | 13.5" x 18" / 343x457 |
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg) | 10,695 / 4851.18 |
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | |
Heating Ability | |
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm) | 138 - 1.625" / 41 |
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
Flue/Tube length (ft / m) | |
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2) | 70 / 6.51 |
Grate Area (sq ft / m2) | 10.80 / 1 |
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 601 / 55.86 |
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 601 / 55.86 |
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 201.54 |
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 1512 |
Same as above plus superheater percentage | 1512 |
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | 9800 |
Power L1 | 2716 |
Power MT |