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Specifications for
the Baltimore & Ohio RR Locomotives 33, 34, 76 & 83 |
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| Confederate Names: #33 -- Unknown; #34 -- Unknown; #76 --
Orion; #83 -- General Price, Raleigh |
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| Information found in Bell, The Early Motive Power of the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad, 1912, pages 70-71, reformatted for
ease of reading. |
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| All built between October, 1850 and November, 1853. |
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| Cylinders: #33, #34, #76 -- 19" x 22" |
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#83 -- 20" x 22" |
| Driving Wheels: 43" |
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| Bell quotes the following from Colburn's Locomotive
Engineering, p. 82-83: |
| Weight: 57,400 lbs |
| Firebox heating surface: 87.5 square feet |
| Tube heating surface: 984 square feet |
| Total heating surface: 1,071.5 square feet |
| Grate area: 18 square feet |
| Number of tubes: 135 |
| Diameter of tubes: 2" |
| Length of tubes: 14 feet |
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| The cylinders were set horizontally and were
bolted to a flat-sided smoke box. The valves were worked by drop
hook gear |
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