Fort Worth & Denver City, Colorado & Southern 4-6-2 "Pacific" Locomotives in the USA


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class F-3-A (Locobase 16212)

Data from DeGolyer, Volume 35, p. 19. Works numbers for C&S 350-354 were 35771-35773, 35796-3797 in December 1910; those for the FW&DC 501-505 were 35798 in December 1910 and 35854-35857 in January 1911.

Four years after the last Baldwin Ten-wheeler, the C&S and FW&DC took delivery of these much bigger Pacifics from Baldwin as a single batch. Drury (1993) says they were copies of the CB & Q's S-2 class (see Locobase 9384). All had 12" (305 mm) piston valves and Emerson superheaters (24 flues and a superheater surface area of 845 sq ft). Emerson superheater tubes had thicker walls (BWG #9)

In 1923, the C&S made over the boiler while installing a 32-tube Schmidt superheater (see Locobase 6757) while the FW&DC updated the 501-505 (see Locobase 9853).

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
ClassF-3-A
Locobase ID16212
RailroadFort Worth & Denver City, Colorado & Southern
CountryUSA
Whyte4-6-2
Number in Class10
Road Numbers501-505, 350-354
GaugeStd
Number Built10
BuilderBaldwin
Year1910
Valve GearWalschaert
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)12.83 / 3.91
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)32.75 / 9.98
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase 0.39
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)64.29 / 19.60
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)150,000 / 68,039
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)230,000 / 104,326
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)160,300 / 72,711
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)390,300 / 177,037
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)8200 / 31.06
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)13 / 12
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)83 / 41.50
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)69 / 1753
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)160 / 1100
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)25" x 28" / 635x711
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)34,493 / 15645.78
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 4.35
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)170 - 2.25" / 57
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)24 - 5.5" / 140
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)21 / 6.40
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)194 / 18.02
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)55 / 5.11
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)3010 / 279.64
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)845 / 78.50
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)3855 / 358.14
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume189.19
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation8800
Same as above plus superheater percentage10,736
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area37,869
Power L113,398
Power MT590.75

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