Black Hills & Northwestern 2-8-2 "Mikado" Locomotives in the USA

Class 6 (Locobase 13291)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 34, p.p. 286+. (Thanks to Chris Hohl for his 31 March 2015 email and Excel spreadsheet, which persuaded Locobase to separate this one entry into two; see Locobase 16038.) Works number was 34722 in May 1910.

Baldwin's logging Mikados burned almost anything to keep going. Some used oil and others, like this BH&N locomotive, burned wood; the latter's tender capacity was three cords. And while some of the type used Walschaert's outside constant-lead radial valve gear, this one supplied steam to the cylinders with a Stephenson link motion.

The BH&N featured 6% grades and 20 degree curves (radii of 288 feet/87.8 metres).

In 1916, the 12-mile (19.3 km) subsidiary BH&N was merged with its owner, Mason County Logging Company. Both locomotives served MCLC for a long time. 6's subsequent career is unknown to Locobase.

Class 9 (Locobase 16038)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 52, pp. 371. (Thanks to Chris Hohl for his 31 March 2015 email and Excel spreadsheet, which persuaded Locobase to separate this one entry into two; see Locobase 13291.) Works number was 41299 in April 1914.

Locobase 13291 describes the earlier wood-burning logging engine supplied to the BH&N in 1910. When Baldwin built the second of the two Mikados four years later, they delivered a similar engine with higher boiler pressure and an oil-burner.

9 was sold to the Carlton & Coast in early 1945 as their #11, but that road closed very shortl. See [], last accessed 25 October 2011, for an account of this road.

Mike #9 went on in April 1945 to the Tonopah & Goldfield in Nevada. Alas for the now aged 11, the T & G was abandoned in October 1947 and the engine was scrapped in 1948.