Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern / Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City 2-8-0 "Consolidation" Locomotives in the USA


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class D-5 (Locobase 5486)

Data from the locomotive diagram published on Vernon Beck's website -- [] (accessed 22 March 2003). This was a design for a Consolidation that was never actually built, according to Corbin & Kerka (1960).


Class D-6 (Locobase 5487)

Data from the locomotive diagram published on Vernon Beck's website -- [] (accessed 22 March 2003) and DeGolyer, Volume 22, p. 262. Works numbers were 17543-17544, 17554-17555 in March 1900.

Like the D5, say Chicago, Burlington & Quincy historians Corbin & Kerka (1960), the sketch of the D-6 is of a design for a Consolidation that was never actually built. Later information shows that the class was ordered by the Kansas City & Northern Connecting, went into service on its successor Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern, and was taken into the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City in 1902.

At some point, the firebox dimensions changed, probably by adding arch tubes, so that the heating surface area now measured 203 sq ft (18.86 sq m) and evaporative heating surface area increased to 2,241 sq ft (208.2 sq m).

The four engines served the QO&KC until the late 1920s. 31 was scrapped in July 1927, 32 in August, 34 in May 1929, and 33 in the following July; all were dismantled at Eola.

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

ClassD-5D-6
Locobase ID5486 5487
RailroadQuincy, Omaha & Kansas City (QO&KC)Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern (QO&KC)
CountryUSAUSA
Whyte2-8-02-8-0
Number in Class14
Road Numbers511512-515/31-34
GaugeStdStd
Number Built14
BuilderBrooksBurnham, Williams & Co
Year1900
Valve GearStephensonStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)13.50 / 4.1114 / 4.27
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)22 / 6.7122.08 / 6.73
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.61 0.63
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)119,000 / 53,978132,000 / 59,874
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)131,000 / 59,421148,000 / 67,132
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)90,000 / 40,82383,000 / 37,648
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)221,000 / 100,244231,000 / 104,780
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)4000 / 15.154000 / 15.15
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)50 / 2555 / 27.50
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)50 / 127051 / 1295
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)180 / 12.40180 / 12.40
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)18" x 26" / 457x66020" x 26" / 508x660
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)25,777 / 11692.2631,200 / 14152.10
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 4.62 4.23
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)230 - 2" / 51260 - 2.25" / 57
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)13.83 / 4.2213.28 / 4.05
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)152 / 14.13180.30 / 16.75
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)23.75 / 2.2126.33 / 2.45
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)2025 / 188.202203 / 204.66
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)2025 / 188.202203 / 204.66
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume264.36233.12
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation42754739
Same as above plus superheater percentage42754739
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area27,36032,454
Power L154545026
Power MT404.17335.77

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