The Puget Sound & Cascade Railway was a single-track standard-gauge railroad located in the State of Washington. It ran from Mount Vernon to Talc, a distance of 15.9 miles and with 2.8 miles of yard tracks and sidings the railway had a total of 18.7 miles of tracks. The railway was incorporated July 1912, under the general laws of the State of Washington. The purpose for which the carrier was incorporated was to build, construct, equip, buy, and operate a railroad approximately 30 miles in length in Skagit County, Washington. Its organization was completed July 6, 1912. The principal office of the carrier is at Seattle, WA
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The Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railway was incorporated in 1916 as successor to the Washington Electric Railway. The first 18 miles were opened from Chehalis to Onalaska in 1918 and the final 14 miles to Cowlitz was finished in 1928. The total projected line was 170 miles, but it never got beyond the 32 miles. It was abandoned without ever owning a diesel.
The first locomotive on the CC&C was a 2-8-2 used "Mikado". This locomotive was built by Baldwin in 1916 for the Clear Lake Lumber Co. at Clear Lake, in Skagit County, WA and was lettered for the Puget Sound and Cascade Railway with the road number 200. As the 200, it was put to work hauling logs on Clear Lake's mainline until Clear Lake Lumber went bankrupt.
Number 200 was repossessed, by Baldwin, in 1926 and resold to Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railway and it renumbered it to the 15. It was donated to the city of Chehalis about 1955 and was restored to operating condition in the Mt. Rainier's Mineral Shops for use on the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Association line in Chehalis, WA.
Data from "Logging Locomotives", Record of Recent Construction #96 (Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1918), p. 36-37. See also DeGolyer, Volume 52, pp. 387+. (Thanks to Stephen Low for his 16 May 2017 email noting a typo in a Locobase reference number that mistakenly directed him to a Locobase entry describing a Norwegian locomotive.) Works number was 44106 in September 1916.
Note the superheater, which was relatively uncommon in logging locomotives. Unlike the Humbird Lumber Company engine shown in Locobase 11017, this locomotive had a bare firebox with no arch tubes. Otherwise the two were essentially identical except for the choice of fuel (coal for Humbird, oil for PS & C) and the profile of the line. Clear Lake's area of operation included curves of 18 deg and 3 1/2% grades on the main line, 30 deg and 5% on the spurs on 56-lb/yd (28-kg/m) rail.
Baldwin's record presents a confusing outline of this locomotive's initial ownership. Apparently the locomotive was bought by the Clear Lake Lumber Company, which operated the PS & C. The 200 served the Clear Lake stands until the company went bankrupt in 1926. At that point, Baldwin repossessed the 200 and sold it to the Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railway. When the 15 was retired in 1955, it was donated to the City of Chehalis. More than 25 years later, the Mt Rainier Scenic Railway's shops overhauled the 15 and put it back in service.
| Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media | |
|---|---|
| Class | 200 |
| Locobase ID | 11018 |
| Railroad | Puget Sound & Cascade |
| Country | USA |
| Whyte | 2-8-2 |
| Number in Class | 1 |
| Road Numbers | 200 |
| Gauge | Std |
| Number Built | 1 |
| Builder | Baldwin |
| Year | 1916 |
| Valve Gear | Walschaert |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) | 13.08 / 3.99 |
| Engine Wheelbase (ft / m) | 27.08 / 8.25 |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase | 0.48 |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) | 55.37 / 16.88 |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg) | |
| Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg) | 141,500 / 64,183 |
| Engine Weight (lbs / kg) | 179,000 / 81,193 |
| Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg) | 91,000 / 41,277 |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg) | 270,000 / 122,470 |
| Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML) | 4500 / 17.05 |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) | 2000 / 7570 |
| Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m) | 59 / 29.50 |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter (in / mm) | 48 / 1219 |
| Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa) | 160 / 1100 |
| High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm) | 20.5" x 28" / 521x711 |
| Tractive Effort (lbs / kg) | 33,340 / 15122.79 |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | 4.24 |
| Heating Ability | |
| Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm) | 199 - 2" / 51 |
| Flues (number - dia) (in / mm) | 28 - 5.375" / 137 |
| Flue/Tube length (ft / m) | 16.25 / 4.95 |
| Firebox Area (sq ft / m2) | 154 / 14.31 |
| Grate Area (sq ft / m2) | 41.30 / 3.84 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 2476 / 230.11 |
| Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 553 / 51.39 |
| Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 3029 / 281.50 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 231.40 |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 6608 |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | 7797 |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | 29,075 |
| Power L1 | 9837 |
| Power MT | 613.06 |
