Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company 2-6-2 "Prairie" Locomotives in the USA


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class 6 (Locobase 15238)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 71, pp. 393+. Works numbers were 56323 in March 1923.

Somewhat larger than usual oil-burning Prairie saddle-tank logging engine that served the SFLC and successor Weyerhaeuser Timber until it was sold in 1948 to Canadian Forest Products as their #112. It remained in service into the 1960s before being put on display at Beaver Cove, British Columbia.

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
Class6
Locobase ID15238
RailroadSnoqualmie Falls Lumber Company
CountryUSA
Whyte2-6-2ST
Number in Class2
Road Numbers6
GaugeStd
Number Built2
BuilderBaldwin
Year1923
Valve GearWalschaert
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)9 / 2.74
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)24.42 / 7.44
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.37
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)24.42 / 7.44
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)115,000 / 52,163
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)153,000 / 69,400
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)2000 / 7.58
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)900 / 3407
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)64 / 32
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)44 / 1118
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)175 / 1210
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)18" x 24" / 457x610
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)26,288 / 11924.05
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 4.37
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)130 - 2" / 51
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)20 - 5.375" / 137
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)10.42 / 3.18
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)109 / 10.13
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)22 / 2.04
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1103 / 102.51
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)228 / 21.19
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)1331 / 123.70
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume156.01
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation3850
Same as above plus superheater percentage4505
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area22,318
Power L16716
Power MT386.25

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