CEMR 0-6-0 Locomotives in Spain
Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media
Class unknown (Locobase 4942)
[
]. See also Juan Peris Torner, "Ferrocarril de la Compa'fa Espa'ola de Minas del Rif v Protectorado de Marrueco", his spanishrailways.com blog entry of 27 March 2012, last accessed 3 August 2015 at [] . Works numbers were 3625 in 1909, 4830 in 1911, 10523 in 1923.
The CEMR website describes these workhorses for the Compania Espanola de Minerales del Rif (CEMR). The CEMR, the history page tells us, was founded in 1908 as one of the narrow-gauge railways built across the Strait in North Africa (Spanish Morocco) to exploit iron-ore deposits. The port of Melilla was one terminus while the railway wound back into the hinterlands.
The O&K engines were bigger and more powerful than the earlier Avonside engine and served the CEMR for years. Later (around 1936, guesses the arrakis page), they bore the numbers 241-243 and worked at leveling the San Lorenzo mountain.
(The webpage writer also notes that the technical data actually comes from contemporaneous engines supplied to an Argentine railway (O&K number 5433). He states that the only difference is the gauge, the Argentine engine operating on standard gauge.
He is in error, according to a Uruguayan website, which has full details -- recorded in Locobase 4777 -- on the #1, which is the O&K engine to which he refers. )
| Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media | |
|---|---|
| Class | unknown |
| Locobase ID | 4942 |
| Railroad | CEMR |
| Country | Spain |
| Whyte | 0-6-0T |
| Number in Class | 3 |
| Road Numbers | (241-243) |
| Gauge | Metre |
| Number Built | 3 |
| Builder | Orenstein & Koppel |
| Year | 1909 |
| Valve Gear | Stephenson |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) | 9.19 / 2.80 |
| Engine Wheelbase (ft / m) | 9.19 / 2.80 |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase | 1 |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) | 9.19 / 2.80 |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg) | |
| Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg) | 99,207 / 45,000 |
| Engine Weight (lbs / kg) | 99,207 / 45,000 |
| Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML) | 793 / 3 |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) | |
| Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m) | 55 / 27.50 |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter (in / mm) | 39.40 / 1000 |
| Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa) | 170.70 / 1180 |
| High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm) | 16.54" x 24.41" / 420x620 |
| Tractive Effort (lbs / kg) | 24,592 / 11154.76 |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | 4.03 |
| Heating Ability | |
| Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm) | 172 - 1.87" / 47 |
| Flues (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
| Flue/Tube length (ft / m) | 10.17 / 3.10 |
| Firebox Area (sq ft / m2) | |
| Grate Area (sq ft / m2) | 16.14 / 1.50 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 872 / 81.04 |
| Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
| Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 872 / 81.04 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 143.65 |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 2755 |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | 2755 |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | |
| Power L1 | |
| Power MT | |