C&O 1308

Chesapeake & Ohio 1308

Front and right side
Type and origin
References[1][2]
Power type Steam
Builder Baldwin Locomotive Works
Order number 48001
Build date 1949
Total produced 9
Specifications
Configuration 2-6-6-2
Gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Driver dia. 56 in (1,422 mm)
Wheelbase 48.8 ft (14.87 m)
Length 99.7 ft (30.39 m)
Adhesive weight 366,700 lb (166,332 kg)
Loco weight 434,900 lb (197,267 kg)
Tender weight 208,200 lb (94,438 kg)
Total weight 643,100 lb (291,705 kg)
Tender type 12-RC
Fuel type Soft coal
Water cap 12,000 US gal (45,425 l; 9,992 imp gal)
Tender cap 16 short tons (15 t)
Firebox:
 • Firegrate area		 72 sq ft (6.7 m2)
Boiler 96 in (2,438 mm)
Boiler pressure 210 psi (1.45 MPa)
Feedwater heater none
Heating surface 4,830 sq ft (449 m2)
Superheater:
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 • Type Type A
 • Heating area 991 sq ft (92.1 m2)
Cylinders 4
Front cylinder 35 in × 32 in (890 mm × 810 mm)
Rear cylinder 22 in × 32 in (560 mm × 810 mm)
Valve gear Walschaerts
Loco brake Air
Train brakes Air
Performance figures
Tractive effort 98,700 lbf (439.04 kN)
Factor of adh. 4.66
Career
Operators C&O
Class H-6
Numbers 1308
Last run February 29, 1956
Current owner Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, Inc.
Disposition

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Chesapeake and Ohio 1308 Steam Locomotive
Location 1401 Memorial blvd., Huntington, West Virginia
Coordinates 38°24′18.5″N 82°28′38″W / 38.405139°N 82.47722°W / 38.405139; -82.47722Coordinates: 38°24′18.5″N 82°28′38″W / 38.405139°N 82.47722°W / 38.405139; -82.47722
Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built 1949
Architect Baldwin Locomotive Works
Architectural style H-6 Locomotive
NRHP Reference # 02001571[3]
Added to NRHP January 31, 2003

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 1308 is a 2-6-6-2 Mallet articulated locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949. It was the next to the last Class 1 mainline locomotive built by Baldwin, closing out more than 100 years of production, a total of more the 70,000 locomotives. The last locomotive, its sister, 1309, is being restored to operation at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad www.movingfullsteamahead.com .

While 1308 is a very modern locomotive, with roller bearings, mechanical lubricators, stoker, and superheater, it was the last of a series of 2-6-6-2s that the C&O began in 1911. A very similar design, the USRA 2-6-6-2 was chosen by the United States Railroad Administration as one of its standard designs thirty years earlier during World War I. The advantage of the design was that it could be used on the relatively light, tightly curved, branch lines in West Virginia and Kentucky coal country, and that's where it worked for its seven year working life, making the two-hour run from Peach Creek, near Logan, West Virginia to the Ohio River at Russell, Kentucky with an occasional trip to Hinton, West Virginia.[1] Its use in heavy mountain railroading is emphasized by its two cross compound air compressors mounted on the smokebox door to supply enough air for frequent heavy braking.

The class was unusual for the time in that they were true Mallets, since their steam was expanded once in their smaller rear cylinders and then a second time in their larger front cylinders. While compound locomotives are more efficient than single expansion, their extra complication led to very few United States railroads using them after the turn of the century.[4] The C&O had a long history with Mallets and they were ideal for slow speed work in West Virginia.

After its last run on February 29, 1956, it was stored at Russell until the C&O gave it to the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, Inc., a group founded in 1959.[5] Collis P. Huntington is best known as one of the Big Four who built the Central Pacific Railroad from San Francisco to Promontory, Utah, but following that he spent at least ten years as a leading figure of the C&O. The town where 1308 sits is named for him.

The locomotive was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Chesapeake and Ohio 1308 Steam Locomotive in 2003.

References

  1. 1 2 "NRHP Registration Form: Chesapeake and Ohio 1308 Steam Locomotive" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  2. ↑ C. B. Peck (ed.). 1950-52 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice. New York: Simmons-Boardman. p. 518.
  3. ↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. ↑ C.B. Peck (ed.). 1950-52 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice. New York: Simmons-Boardman. pp. 500–538. Of 102 locomotives listed in detail, only 2 were compound, the N&W Y6 and the C&O H-6.
  5. ↑ Casto, James E. (February 2004). "Saved from the Scrap Yard" (PDF). Wonderful West Virginia: 11–14.
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