Vittorio Emanuele Articulated Locomotives in Italy


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class unknown (Locobase 3574)

Wiener (1930) for data, supplemented and corrected by data from Titre Rapports du jury mixte internationale publies sous la dir. de S.A.I le Prince Napoleon, presidente de la commission Imperial (Paris, Impremerie Imperiale, 1856) Collation [4]-LXXVI-1574-p. -[2]; Cote CNAM 8th Xae 53 - Mots mateiere Exposition internationale (1885; Paris); Industrie - 19e siecle; Produits industriels - 19e siecle, p. 233, hosted on cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?8XAE53/320/100/1664/0/0, accessed 1 September 2005.

Twin (dos a dos) locomotive design building on the Turin-Genoa experience. They had saddle tanks over the boilers.

Locobase adopts the Jury's data where they differ because it was contemporary with the adoption of this design. Each boiler's heating surface was 71.62 sq m (771 sq ft), not including a firebox area of 7.74 sq m (83.3 sq ft).

The jury acknowledges that there are certain difficulties in operating two locomotives coupled together, but finds that as the design placed the engineers back to back, the men were better able to communicate.

The report refers to the Turin-Genoa predecessor and notes that both were designed to handle 3 1/2% grades.

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
Classunknown
Locobase ID3574
RailroadVittorio Emanuele
CountryItaly
Whyte0-4+4-0T
Number in Class
Road Numbers
GaugeStd
Number Built
BuilderCMI
Year1856
Valve Gear
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) 8.56 / 2.61
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)105,822 / 48,000
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)105,822 / 48,000
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)105,822 / 48,000
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)1848 / 7
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) 4.40 / 4
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)44 / 22
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)47.30 / 1200
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)114 / 790
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)16.5" x 23.62" / 420x600 (4)
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)26,348 / 11951.27
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 4.02
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)166.56 / 15.48
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)21.60 / 2.01
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1708 / 158.74
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1708 / 158.74
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume146.09
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation2462
Same as above plus superheater percentage2462
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area18,988
Power L11953
Power MT162.75

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