4-4-0 "American" Steam Locomotives in the USA

Class 50 (Locobase 16012)

Data from Birmingham & Northwestern Locomotive Diagrams supplied in August 2013 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange.

These engines were originally delivered to the US Military Railway. The Dixie Line began rebuilding them in 1880 with the 59. 50-51, 53, and 57 following in 1882, 52 and 55-56 in 1883, and 52 and 54 in 1885.

All were still in service in the 'teens, 59 was sold to the B&NW sometime before 1915.

10 (ex-50) was scrapped in May 1916. All but 55 were sold to locomotive rebuilder/reseller Georgia Car & Locomotive in June 1919; 55 joined them in August of that year.

Class D0-12 (Locobase 6863)

Data from NC&StL 9 - 1925 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange.

An old Eight-wheeler, recorded in the 1925 book, and quite small. It was originally built in 1876 by McQueen (later Schenectady) for the Paducah Tennessee & Alabama as their #12.

Twenty years after it was built, the 2 was part of the PT&A's assets when that 118-mile railroad was sold under foreclosure to the Louisville & Nashville in December 1895. The L&N blended the PT&A and the Tennessee Midland into its Paducah & Memphis Divion, then leased the line to the NC&StL.

Locobase can't determine if the NC&StL ever replaced the 313's firebox or boiler, but its dimensions appear to have changed very little before it was renumbered 2 in 1915 and scrapped in October of that year.

Class D0-13 (Locobase 6864)

Data from NC&StL 9 - 1925 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange.

An old Eight-wheeler, recorded in the 1925 book. Like the engine in Locobase 6863, the 3 (ex-312) was originally built in 1876 by McQueen (later Schenectady) for the Paducah Tennessee & Alabama as their #11. It had a bigger boiler and more cylinder volume than the 12.

After the PT&A was sold under foreclosure to the L&N in December 1895, it was leased to the NC&StL in 1896.

In 1915, the 312 was renumbered 3. It was sold to locomotive rebuilder/reseller Georgia Car & Locomotive Company in June 1919.

Class D0-9 (Locobase 6862)

Data from NC&StL 9 - 1925 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange.

This may have been the first Dixie Line locomotive to enter service after the end of the US Civil War. The diagram notes that the engine had been rebuilt in 1886 and 1908, which accounts for the high bp shown in the specs. Even at that, this was a very low-powered locomotive.

It also records that the locomotive was sold on 10 April 1918.

Class D1-13 (Locobase 6865)

Data from NC&StL 9 - 1925 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange.

The master listing of locomotives shows building dates of 1887-1888, but the diagram page has a hand-written notation "Built 1882". Locobase suspects that 1882 was the original delivery date to another railroad and the 1887-1888 shown in the table represent either a rebuilding or the year the predecessor railroad was taken into the Dixie Line.

5 was sold to the Bugby Railroad on 13 September 1915, 6 went to "G.C & L. Co" on 11 June 1916. 7 had been scrapped two months earlier.

Class D2-13 (Locobase 6866)

Data from NC&StL 9 - 1925 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange.

The master table credits the NC&StL itself with building these engines in 1882 (3), 1883 (3), and 1885 (2). All the members of this octet were sold to Georgia Car & Locomotive on 1 June 1919.

GC&L records compiled by Gene Connelly and others show all of the engines found new owners almost immediately :

NC&L road new owner new number

11 Helena Parkin & Northern, Parkin, Ark 7

12 Chical Lumber, Blountstown, Fla 12

13 Yaryan Rosin & Turpentine, Brunswick, Ga 13

14 Flint Lumber, Avon Park Fla 2

15 Bamberg Ehrhardt & Walterboro, Bamberg, SC 15

16 Clifford & Keay Lumber, Hastings, Fla 00

17 Morehead & North Fork, Morehead, KY 8

18 Jackson & Eastern, Union, Miss 18

Class D3-13/D3A-13 (Locobase 6852)

Data from NC&StL 1 - 1921 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. See also Al Weber's serial-by-serial number accounting the Georgia Car & Locomotive's card record, supplied by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange collection.

Rogers and Baldwin supplied mixed-traffics American-type Eight-wheelers to the Western & Atlantic in 1870-1871 that were built to run on that railroad's 5' gauge track. Rogers works numbers are estimated to have been 1744-1747 in 1870. Baldwin's works numbers were 2384-2385, 2397, and 2402-2403 in 1871.

In the late 1880s, the W&A rebuilt the class with new boilers. Two years later, the class moved into the NC&StL and were placed in two subclasses reflecting their builders (D-3-13 for Rogers, D-3-13A for Baldwin.)

Except for the 22, which went on its own in June 1916 to the scrapper, the class was sold en bloc to locomotive rebuilderr/reseller Georgia Car & Locomotive, which found industrial and timber buyers for all of them (Moguls often enjoyed second careers because of their flexibility and track kindness.That these were only about 35 years old rendered them stll more attractive.)

GC&L sold the 20 in November 1921 to Arabia Granite Company. 21 languished until March 1925, when it was sold in 1921 as the J M Griffin Lumber Company in of Holopaw, Fla as their #1.

GC&L let 23 run under its own steam to Allenhurst, Gain in May 1921 as the Southern Timber Company as the "E V Dunlevie #7". Boyd Lumber Company of Boydville, Ga bought the 24 in July 1921 and kept the number.

GC&L's sale of the 25 to St Mary's in August 1924 exchanged the engine for two old locomotives, a flat car and a coach, all in scrap condition.

Maryville, Tenn's charmingly named Light Pink Marble Company bought the 26 in April 1921.

Candler, Ga's epnonymous lumber company bought the 27 in June 1921.

Class D4-14 (Locobase 6853)

Data from NC&StL 1 - 1921 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange collection. Works numbers

These were freight-service American-type Eight-wheelers. The much more numerous Ten-wheel freighters (later classed as G2-18) appear in Locobase 6856.

After much prowling around in Allen Stanley's RDE collection, Locobase manage to identify this quartet as the survivors of a ten-locomotive order from Rogers in 1870 by the Nashville & Chattanooga and identified as "16-car engines"--presumably describing the design's pulling power.

Estimated works numbers were [1768]-[1769], [1771]-[1772], [1793]-[1797], [1802]. Numbered 55-64 upon delivery, their numbers changed to 40-49 when the N&C became the NC&StL in 1873.

"Year Built" dates in the 1921 diagram book refer to the years these four (at least) went through a reconstruction that likely included a new boiler, possibly a new firebox, and almost certainly very little left of the orginal above the running gear.

Over the years and reclassified D4-14, the NC&StL discarded the 41 in 1906, sold 42, 47-48 to locomotive rebuilder/reseller Georgia Car & Locomotive in 1910, and 45-46 to scrap dealer Joseph L Joseph.

GC&L found a buyer for the 42 (GC&L 109) in Martel Lumber Company to run as the 101 on the Ocala & Southwestern in Florida. 101 later returned to GC&L, who flogged it to Cranford Lumber.

Ex-47 (GC&L 110) went to Beach Lumber in New Lacy, Ga as their Mill City #2.

Ex-48 (GC&L 111) found its next home on the Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson as their 60.

The four remaining engines received new road numbers 30-33 in 1915.

Class D5-15 & D5A-15 (Locobase 6854)

Data from NC&StL 1 - 1921 Locomotive Diagrams-CLR CHTS supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 4084-4085 in 1888 and 4110-4111, 4138, 4141, and 4151.

Rogers was a steady supplier of Eight-wheelers to the NC&St L in the 1880s. These mixed-traffic D-5s in particular fit the pattern of North American Americans in size and power.

Baldwin produced one D-5A-15 (road #42) pressed to 165 psi (for a tractive effort of 16,500 lb) that was otherwise identical.