Camp Manufacturing / Central Monserrate 2-6-0 "Mogul" Locomotives in the USA

Class 18 (Locobase 12925)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines, 1890, as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 28 . Works number was 32012

in October 1907.

As this railroad penetrated the timberlands on the Virginia-North Carolina border, it added to its narrow-gauge Mogul roster. A relatively long wheelbase suggests a preoccupation with light rail loadings.

Class 23 (Locobase 12924)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines, 1890, as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 28 . Works number was 27506 in February 1906.

J W Truitt was the broker for this locomotive, which was one of few bought by Camp from Baldwin. It was considerably larger than the narrow-gauge engine of 1894 described in Locobase 12131.

Class 28 (Locobase 12926)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines, 1890, as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 28 . Works number was 39270

in February 1913.

Camp's logging operations called for lightly loaded locomotives and like many such companies, procuring a Prairie offered a useful combination of power spread out over 5 axles.

The 28 later went to Gray Lumber Company, which scrapped it in 1951.

Class Hertford (Locobase 12131)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines, 1890, as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 19, p. 171. Works number was 14110 in November 1894.

Camp Manufacturing operated in southeastern Virginia near Suffolk and this little logging Mogul fit right in.

Class Morovis (Locobase 13765)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 36, p.240. Works number was 35250 in September 1910.

The specs for this plantation Mogul indicate what the little engine was up against. It was expected to scale 3 1/2 to 4% grades, go around 90-ft (27.4-metre) radii curves, and be kind to 35-lb/yard (17.5-kg/metre) rail. They too were supplied by Ernst Wiener Company, which increasingly looked to gasoline power for the sugar-central engines it ordered.