Wailuku Sugar Company 0-6-2 Locomotives in the USA

Class George H Robertson (Locobase 13158)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 54, p. 412. Works number was 42166 in June 1915.

The Wailuku plantation wasn't profligate in its spending on locomotives. It waited eight years after delivery of its second locomotive (Locobase 13157) before it ordered this one. Although about the same size as the Prairie tank, the George H Robertson gave up the front axle and used a boiler with smaller-diameter tubes. Its water and oil-fuel tanks were larger, but it weighed less than the P C Jones. A 1922 photograph shows the cabbage stack with spark arrester.

At the end of that year, the Wailuke Company owned 3,395 acres of cane cultivation, 142 uncultivated acres, and 16,499 acres of forest and pasture land owned in fee.

Class Sarah (Locobase 13159)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 20, p 124. Works number was 14812 in April 1896.

A typical radial tank used by several Hawaiian sugar plantations, this Maui-based side tank was one of the smallest. Like those others, however, it faced often challenging operating conditions and suffered. J J Paramalee of the HSC sent a report dated 11 December 1900 (i.e., about four years after it entered service) noting that the 7's springs kept breaking until heavier springs were put in. The planter also had to fit a new Radley & Hunter spark-arresting stack.

Another note indicates that the company paid for Extra Order work to fit the engine's water tank on the boiler (a saddle tank). This may have happened in 1925.