Tionesta Valley / Tombigbee Valley 2-6-0 "Mogul" Locomotives in the USA


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class 30 (Locobase 13179)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 31, p. See also the Mississippi Rails site at [link] . Works number was 31843 in October 1907.

Locobase savors the name of one of the two termini on this 52-mile short line, which connected Nannahubba Bluff, Alabama with Healing Springs. The TV emerged in 1904 from the reorganization of the 3-foot-gauge Tombigbee & Northern. Alas, according to Mississippi Rails, it immediately abandoned the segment between Nannahubba Bluff and Calvert.

Its number 30 was bought at the same time and in the same purchase order as the Alabama, Tennessee & Northern's #10 (Locobase 13178). Cost was $9,800.

Five years later the 30 was reunited with the 10 when the AT & N consolidated its lines with the TV.


Class 6 (Locobase 2639)

Data from Catalogue Descriptive of Simple and Compound Locomotives built by Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, NY (Buffalo, NY: Matthew-Northrup Company, 1899). Works number was 2981 in June 1898.

Pocket Mogul for a light-rail narrow-gauge line that served the Sheffield, Penn. area.

(Two more Moguls were delivered to the TV as road 7 and 9. One was works number 3562, delivered in July 1900, the other was works number 3956, produced in September 1901. It's likely that they duplicated #6's data, but Locobase can't confirm.)

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
Class306
Locobase ID13179 2639
RailroadTombigbee ValleyTionesta Valley
CountryUSAUSA
Whyte2-6-02-6-0
Number in Class12
Road Numbers306
GaugeStd3'
Number Built12
BuilderBurnham, Williams & CoBrooks
Year19071898
Valve GearStephensonStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)12 / 3.6610 / 3.05
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)19.83 / 6.0415.75 / 4.80
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.61 0.63
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)39.47 / 12.03
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)86,000 / 39,00951,000 / 23,133
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)100,000 / 45,35958,000 / 26,308
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)80,000 / 36,28750,000 / 22,680
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)180,000 / 81,646108,000 / 48,988
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)4000 / 15.152000 / 7.58
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)6 / 6
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)48 / 2428 / 14
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)48 / 121938 / 965
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)175 / 1210165 / 1140
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)17" x 24" / 432x61015" x 18" / 381x457
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)21,494 / 9749.5314,948 / 6780.31
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 4.00 3.41
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)200 - 2" / 51150 - 2" / 51
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)11.67 / 3.56 7.46 / 2.27
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)114.80 / 10.6779 / 7.34
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)21.30 / 1.9812.50 / 1.16
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1328 / 123.42658 / 61.15
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1328 / 123.42658 / 61.15
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume210.46178.80
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation37282063
Same as above plus superheater percentage37282063
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area20,09013,035
Power L142202990
Power MT324.54387.75

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