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Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”

During its time as Consolidated Builders No. 800

The Sugar Pine Lumber Co., founded in 1923, was a logging railroad in the Sierra Nevada in California that called itself the “crookedest railroad ever built”. Nevertheless, they used locomotives with multiple driving ...

Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”Remove
Variant Standard
Built 1927
Manufacturers ALCO
Wheel arrangement 1E1 st
Gauge 1435 mm
Length
Service mass 121336 kg
Top speed
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General

Property Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”
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Built 1927
Manufacturers ALCO
Wheel arrangement 2-10-2ST (Santa Fé)
Gauge 1,435 mm

Dimensions and weights

Property Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”
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Wheelbase 10.74 m
Service mass 121.3 t
Adhesion mass 96.6 t
Rigid wheelbase 5.79 m
Axle load 19.3 t
Water capacity 15,142 l

Boiler

Property Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”
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Grate area 3.112 m²
Evaporative heating surface 224.361 m²
Superheater surface 54.627 m²
Total heating surface 279.0 m²

Power plant

Property Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”
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Driver diameter 1,219 mm
Boiler pressure 15.2 bar
Expansion type simple expansion
Cylinders two, 559 x 711 mm

Power

Property Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”
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Power source steam
Estimated power 969 kW (1,317 PS)
Starting effort 234.8 kN

Calculated values

Property Sugar Pine Lumber Co. No. 5 “Minaret”
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Factor of adhesion 1 : 4.04
Optimal speed 26 km/h
Power-to-weight ratio 8.0 kW/t
Adhesive weight/Total 1 : 1.26
Tractive force/Heating surface 1 : 17.58
Grate area/Heating surface 1 : 89.65
Total/Superheater 1 : 4.11
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