Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 65, pp. 322+. Works numbers were 55639-55640 in September 1922.
Certainly bigger than the Mogul delivered to the WC&W a year earlier, this brace of Consolidations offered a healthy measure of power. So their return to Baldwin in 1924 suggests that the railroad found them too much engine for their requirements (the road would reorganize in a truncated form in 1927). Baldwin found a willing buyer in 1926 in long-time customer Woodward Iron, which renumbered them 35-36. Curiously, these were the first Baldwin 2-8-0s that Alabama company rostered.
Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media | |
|---|---|
| Class | 440 |
| Locobase ID | 14974 |
| Railroad | Wabash, Chester & Western |
| Country | USA |
| Whyte | 2-8-0 |
| Number in Class | 2 |
| Road Numbers | 440-441/35-36 |
| Gauge | Std |
| Number Built | 2 |
| Builder | Burnham, Williams & Co |
| Year | 1922 |
| Valve Gear | Walschaert |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) | 15.25 / 4.65 |
| Engine Wheelbase (ft / m) | 23.33 / 7.11 |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase | 0.65 |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) | 54.04 / 16.47 |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg) | |
| Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg) | 141,000 / 63,957 |
| Engine Weight (lbs / kg) | 159,000 / 72,121 |
| Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg) | 124,000 / 56,246 |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg) | 283,000 / 128,367 |
| Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML) | 6000 / 22.73 |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) | 10 / 9 |
| Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m) | 59 / 29.50 |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter (in / mm) | 54 / 1372 |
| Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa) | 195 / 13.40 |
| High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm) | 21" x 26" / 533x660 |
| Tractive Effort (lbs / kg) | 35,194 / 15963.75 |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | 4.01 |
| Heating Ability | |
| Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm) | 276 - 2" / 51 |
| Flues (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
| Flue/Tube length (ft / m) | 14.50 / 4.42 |
| Firebox Area (sq ft / m2) | 120 / 11.15 |
| Grate Area (sq ft / m2) | 35.10 / 3.26 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 2203 / 204.66 |
| Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
| Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 2203 / 204.66 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 211.42 |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 6845 |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | 6845 |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | 23,400 |
| Power L1 | 4721 |
| Power MT | 295.26 |