2-6-0 "Mogul" Steam Locomotives in the USA

Class E-1 (Locobase 15849)

Data from Edward L May and William D Edson, "Locomotives of the New York Central Lines" (1966), p 90. Grant supplied eight of the class--76-83-- in 1881 with the others all being built by the CCC&I. See also Fourteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Company (Cleveland, Ohio: Short & Forman, 1882).

These Moguls first began operating on the CCC&I in 1879. Brooks delivered the first five in 1879 (works numbers 382-386).

The next three were built by the CCC&I itself in 1880 (74-75) and 1881 (84). General Manager J H Devereux's report stated that the 74 cost $10,463.97 and the 84 $10,193.91 to build. Grant's eight engines cost $93,097.20 or an average of $11,637.15 each.

At the time of these purchases, the CCC&I's total length of road was 471.5 miles (759 km). It purchased of the Indianapolis & St Louis Railroad in 1882.

Grant Locomotive Works of Paterson followed with eight more (works numbers assigned retrospectively were 1422, 1429, 4123-1428) in 1881. All of the rest of the class were built by the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis from 1881-1885.

Class E-65 (Locobase 7663)

Data from CCC&StL 3 -1914 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 1249-1254 in July 1887.

These Moguls' provenance suggested high-quality as the Dunkirk, NY builder quickly established its reputation for design and workmanship. Three years later the CCC&I merged with two Illinois railways and became the "Big Four": Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis.

Each received new boilers, the 6357 in January 1908, the 6360 in July 1911. The class remained on the Big Four until the middle teens when 6355-6356 and 6358-6359 went to the scrap dealer in 1915-1917.

Two of the class earned a second life after locomotive rebuilder/reseller Southern Iron & Equipment bought them in April 1917 as items 1151-1152 and sold them both in July 1917 to Kosciuko & South Eastern (some sources report the operator as Washington & Choctaw). Bolinger-Franklin Lumber Company incorporated the 16.3 mile (26.2 km) K&SE on 18 May 1916. Its 60-lb/yard (30 kg/m) rail linked Kosciusko with Zama, Mississippi, which lay northeast of Jackson.

Ex-6357 took road number 12, which 6360 wore 100. A network of tram roads radiated from Zama. The K&SE returned to the SI&E as item #1602 in 1920 and left very shortly thereafter for the Southern Mineral Company of Winfield, Ala in July 1920.

6357 returned to the SI&E roster as 1850 in July 1923 and found a new owner in the McClure Pine Company of Wagner, Ala. SI&E took a Heisler geared locomotive in trade..

6360, in the books as SI&E 1151