Maui Agricultural Company 2-6-0 "Mogul" Locomotives in the USA


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class Maui (Locobase 10987)

Data from Record of Recent Construction #54 (Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1905), p. 28-29 and DeGolyer, Volume 27, p. 166. Works numbers were 24881 in December 1904, 29801 in December 1906, and 33592 in July 1909.

It's surprising to find a straight-up stack on an engine so clearly intended to haul sugar cane, but this trio was fueled by oil and not cane dross. Keakua's firebox description shows that although delivered as an oil burner and paved with firebrick, its design was also to enable it to burn coal or wood, "so change of fuel can be readily made." Baldwin delivered two grates, the wood-burner with plain bars and drop plates and a coal-burner with rocking bars and drop plates. Two ash pans, one for oil and the other for coal or wood, also accompanied the engine. Also, the engine had two stacks--an oil-burner's straight pipe and the Radley & Hunter diamond stack for coal or wood.

The Maui's operating environment included 3% grades and work areas that required the engine to "run as much backwards as forwards."The rear driving axle was placed ahead of the firebox; Locobase wonders if that complicated backward running or aided it by placing the firebox so low in the frame. The engine also faced the usual tough track and had springs made one plate heavier than usual.

Maui was joined two years later by Haiku. Keakua followed almost three years after that. (Clearly these purchases were not made lightly.) Once on the island, however, they were run for decades under the MAC herald and, after 1948, on the motive-power roster of the successor Hawaiian Commercial Sugar.


Class Pulehu (Locobase 14530)

Data from narrowmind.railfan.net. See also DeGolyer, Vol 34, pp. 423+. Works numbers were 44599 in December 1916.

This plantation Mogul joined its fellow Baldwins on the MAC more than a decade after their delivery (Locobase 10987). It was a bit bigger and more powerful than the earlier engines. Even though the Pulehu was an oil-burner, it was still fitted with the spark-arresting Radley & Hunter diamond stack.

Like the others, Pulehu would run backward as much as forward, according to the specs, scaling 4% grades and getting around curves with radii as small as 200 feet (61 metres).

Notes in the Pulehu's specifications hint at a shortcoming in the 1904 locomotives: "Special attention to be paid to staying of crown sheet both in design and workmanship to avoid the possibility of sheet dropping." Perhaps the extra care was the reason for this engine's long life. In 1948, it was sold to Hawaiian Comercial & Sugar.

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
ClassMauiPulehu
Locobase ID10987 14530
RailroadMaui Agricultural CompanyMaui Agricultural Company
CountryUSAUSA
Whyte2-6-02-6-0
Number in Class31
Road Numbers2-45
Gauge3'3'
Number Built31
BuilderBurnham, Williams & CoBaldwin
Year19041916
Valve GearStephensonStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) 7.25 / 2.21 7.25 / 2.21
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)13.67 / 4.1713.92 / 4.24
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.53 0.52
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)36.42 / 11.1038.81 / 11.83
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)44,420 / 20,14948,000 / 21,772
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)52,720 / 23,91356,000 / 25,401
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)21,280 / 965244,000 / 19,958
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)74,000 / 33,565100,000 / 45,359
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)1200 / 4.552200 / 8.33
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)600 / 2271900 / 3407
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)25 / 12.5027 / 13.50
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)37 / 94037 / 940
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)150 / 1030150 / 1030
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)13" x 18" / 330x45714" x 18" / 356x457
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)10,483 / 4755.0112,157 / 5514.33
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 4.24 3.95
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)97 - 2" / 51109 - 2" / 51
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)11.62 / 3.5411.87 / 3.62
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)40.80 / 3.7952.20 / 4.85
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)9 / 0.8411 / 1.02
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)627 / 58.27725 / 67.38
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)627 / 58.27725 / 67.38
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume226.35225.86
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation13501650
Same as above plus superheater percentage13501650
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area61207830
Power L127752841
Power MT413.18391.46

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