Class 42/D-2 (Locobase 7881)

Data from W&LE 8 - 1923 & 10 1924 Locomotive Diagram books supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 1192 in 1887, 1399-1401 in 1888, 1895-1896 in 1891, 2306 in May 1893.

The C&C was the standard-gauge successor to the bankrupt narrow-gauge Connotton Valley Railroad Company (CVR), whose assets the C&C obtained in a foreclosure sale on 9 May 1885. Over the next seven years it added smaller roads and eventually comprised 209.59 miles of track. In 1892, the C&C renamed itself the Cleveland, Canton & Southern.

This octet of Americans were small mixed-traffic locomotives, considerably smaller than the New York Locomotive engines also designated D-2, delivered in 1887 (Locobase 7877). The 47 briefly served the Valley Railway in 1892 as their #1, but was retrieved by the CC&S in 1893.

But the CC&S could not stand on its own for long and was bought out by the Wheeling & Lake Erie in 1899. The W&LE renumbered the class, but not in order, as follows:

CC&S Works W&LE Disposition

42 1895 316/1252 Scrapped June 1927

43 1896 317/1253 Scrapped June 1927

44 1192 311 Scrapped May 1909

45 1399 312 Scrapped January 1917

46 1400 313 Scrapped June 1923

47 1401 314/1151 Scrapped 1911

48 2306 315/1251 Scrapped December 1925

49 2307 Wrecked August 1896 when rolling down an

embankment, never repaired.

Class 51/D-3 (Locobase 7880)

Data from W&LE 8 - 1923 & 10 1924 Locomotive Diagram books supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works number was 1528 in April 1889.

This Brooks engine sported a larger boiler than the Americans had mounted up to this point.

1404 was scrapped in December 1925.

Class D-2 - NYLW (Locobase 7877)

Data from W&LE 8 - 1923 & 10 1924 Locomotive Diagram books supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Rome works numbers 47 in September 1883, 48-49 in October 1883, 56 in November.

This quartet of Eight-wheelers came from a small New York builder and stood out from the other 4-4-0s because of their longer tubes and greater evaporative heating surface.

The 25 was off the W&LE by 1900, which is when the other three received new numbers 318-320.

319-320 were sold to J C Carland Company in December 1905 and December 1906. 56 remained with the W&LE much longer, earning a new number (1254) in 1920 and only being scrapped in April 1926.

Class D-3 - NYLW (Locobase 7878)

Data from W&LE 8 - 1923 & 10 1924 Locomotive Diagram books supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works numbers were 67-68 in February 1884.

Rome supplied two new Eight-wheelers that had more cylinder volume, but a smaller boiler that reduced demand on the grate.

Renumbered several times, the two locomotives had different careers. 324 was scrapped in September 1911 while 323 was renumbered 1403 in 1919 and scrapped in October 1927.

Class D-4 (Locobase 7882)

Data from W&LE 8 - 1923 & 10 1924 Locomotive Diagram books supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. See also DeGolyer, Volume 25, p. 255. Works numbers were 22229-22231, 22259, 22308, and 22329 in June 1903.

This passenger Ten-wheeler design had a relatively short driving wheelbase and a relatively long front-truck wheelbase. As with many other Baldwin (and likely other builders) to many customers, the W&LE added a plate to the truck springs.

Locobase cannot say for sure why the original specs differ only in the firebox from the later Wheeling diagram books. The specification above shows the Baldwin calculations for firebox heating surface area and consequent evaporative heating surface area. The later diagrams showed a firebox area of 178 sq ft (16.54 sq m) plus three arch tubes measuring 17.7 sq ft.(1.64 sq m), which together with tube heating surface area presented 2,248 sq ft (208.85 sq m).

In a less surprising change, the class later trailed larger tenders weighing 129,000 lb when loaded with 7,000 US gallons (26,495 litres) of water and 10 tons (9.1 tonnes) of coal.

They remained in service for slightly less than three decades. 2204 was scrapped in in June 1927, 2201 and 2205 in December 1931, 2203 in August 1932, 2206 in November 1932, and 2202 in July 1933