Delaware & Hudson 2-6-0 "Mogul" Locomotives in the USA

Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class A-1/C-1 (Locobase 1156)

Data from D&HCCo 1901 & D&H 1 - 1930 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 691-693 & 720-723 in 1889; 740-752, 755-756, 790-799 in 1890, and 806-818 in 1891.

Scranton's favorite builder supplied this large Mogul class (as it did most D & H engines of the time) over a relatively short production run that followed the even more numerous B class (Locobase 8378).

Two -- 63 and 65 were converted to oil burners in 1912 for operation in the Adirondack Forest on the Chateaugay Branch. They stayed in service until 1925 and 1931, respectively. 61, 75, 91, 93, 110-111 were sold to the Quebec, Montreal & Southern. 110 went in 1908, 65 and 111 in 1917, and the others in November 1918.

NB: Tube length is an estimate based on the calculation of tube surface area by subtracting reported firebox heating surface from reported total evaporative heating surface

Class A/C-1k (Locobase 1157)

Data from D&HCo 1901 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. See also "Standard Mogul Passenger Engine, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company", American Engineer and Locomotive Journal, Vol LXVIII, No. 7 (July 1894, pp 298-300. Works numbers were 828-831 in April 1891, 889 in January 1893, 890-896 in February.

One of several classes of Moguls to come onto the D&H during the '90s. As the title of the AERJ report suggested, this was a standard locomotive for passenger service. The journal argued that "[t]he work of thiese engines, if carefully watched, will very far to remove the prejudices which have always existed against the utilzation of mogul engines for passenger traffic. The writer noted that the pony truck's stability at high speed was believed to be suspect, "yet we know of no instance of derailments that was due to the use of the pony truck."

In 1909, the D&H dedicated the 60, 66, and 70 to the Chateaugay branch service in the Adirondack forests. To reduce fire risk, the railroad converted the trio to oil firing.

Retired in three batches: three sold out in 1917-1918, 2 in 1925, and 3 that had been converted to oil burning in 1926.

Class B-1/C-1h (Locobase 8377)

Data from D&HCo 1901 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 506 in June 1884, 541-542 in January 1887, 543-544 in February, 586-588 in April, 589 in May; 622-623 in January 1888, 624 in February, 625-627 in March.

This class was one of the first classes of camelbacks (the D & H called them "double-cabs") on the road. Although fitted with the wide Wootten firebox showing the center-boiler cab and eave over the fireman's footplate position, these engines were considerably smaller than those that would come to represent the type.

Class B/C-1 (Locobase 8378)

Data from D&HCo 1901 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Boiler pressure is an estimate.

This large class of Moguls all came from the Scranton, Pa builder that operated in the heart of D & H territory and supplied many of the road's locomotives. The first two -- works numbers 177-178 -- were delivered in 1876, but most of the rest were produced in 1880-1888. It's likely that the boiler pressure rose to 160 psi, but Locobase cannot confirm.

Locobase 8364 shows the rebuild of some of the locomotives in this class.

Class C-1/C-1g (Locobase 8376)

Data from D&HCo 1901 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange; and "Standard Mogul Freight Locomotive of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company", American Engineer and Railroad Journal, Volume LXVIII, No 6 (June 1894), pp. 250-251.

Four Moguls were delivered to the Albany & Susquehanna from Grant in 1871; works numbers were 785-788 and the engines were named Undadilla, Otsego, Oneonta, and Schoharie.

The A&S was technically independent because it was leased (rather than sold) to the D&H for 99 years beginning in 1870. The D&H incorporated A&S motive power into its own system and this quartet was rebuilt in 1891-1893 by the D&H's Oneonta shops.

One of several classes of Moguls to come onto the D&H during the '90s. As the title of the AERJ report suggested, this was a standard locomotive for both freight (shown here) and passenger (Locobase 1156) service. Some of the engines had arrived on the road three years earlier and hadn't "been in the shops since they were built." Moreover, they were considered equally "first-class" for the fastest passenger trains where speeds of 60 mph (96 kph) were needed to keep the schedules.

As to their freight service, AERJ noted that their trains were "heavily loaded, so much so that they have to be run "down in the corner" [i.e., fully open] to get over the road. The Journal added that engines that hadn't required shopping for three years despite such abuse were "well built". Locobase add that such demand meant the 2-6-0 layout had reached its limit on the D&H for mainline freight.

By 1900, the class was renumbered in order of works numbers as 219-222.

221 was discarded sometime between 1899 and 1903 while the other three fell off the rolls between 1907 and 1911.

Class C-2 (Locobase 1159)

Data from [] (August 2002) diagram.D&H works numbers were 66 and 64, respectively.

Two D&H double-cab rebuilds of 1890 Rogers engines; see Locobase 8371. 117 had a 200-psi boiler.

Class C/C-1b (Locobase 8379)

Data from D&HCo 1901 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Boiler pressure is an estimate. Works numbers were 1786-1789 in 1886.

This quartet came from the small Paterson, NJ builder in a batch. They were of medium size for a D & H Mogul, but were relatively heavy.

Class G-1 (Locobase 8371)

Data from D&HCo 1901 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 4228, 4234 in 1890.

What is most distinctive about this pair of Rogers Moguls was their later conversions to double-cab engines in 1904. See Locobase 1159 for the enlarged result.

Class H-1 (Locobase 8370)

Data from D&HCo 1901 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 315-318 in December 1881 and 319-320 in January 1882.

Amid all of the rebuilt Moguls in the 1901 book lay this quartet of untouched Dickson engines from 1881-1882. Deliveries wrapped around the end of the year with the first four produced in 1881, the last two in early 1882. All had names: T F Torrey, Rattler, Rover, David Dows, C N Kendrick, and Moosic.

The other two in the original sextet had been deleted from the rolls by 1892 (40) and 1899 (176). The remaining four were all gone by 1903.