Durham & Southern 2-10-0 "Decapod" Locomotives in the USA

Class 200 (Locobase 11370)

Data from Baldwin data cards for two orders for Class 12-42-F, 20. See also DeGolyer, Vol 77, pp. 600+. Works numbers were 61350-61351 in May 1930 and 61749 in September 1933.

Exactly duplicating the Baldwin light Decapods (see, e.g., Locobases 1396-1397) that had gone into service in several southern roads during the 1920s, these were the first D & S locomotives that were ordered directly by that road. (One other note: the 202 was the only steam engine Baldwin delivered to a North American customer in 1933.)

Firebox heating surface included 25 sq ft (2.3 sq m) in four arch tubes. Piston valves measured 12" (305 mm) in diameter.

The D & S was a North Carolina shortline that began life as the Cape Fear & Northern in 1892, but was built between Durham and Dunn (in an arc west of Raleigh) in 1903.

The new-built trio never operated elsewhere for the 21-24 years that they remained in service. They were joined by a sister deck in the form of ex-Alabama, Tennessee & Northern 403 in 1947 and all were retired in 1954.