Little River Railroad No. 110
The Little River Railroad in Tennessee had steep grades which also had tight curves at the same time. In 1911, Baldwin delivered the number 110 to them for their passenger trains, which was built with an extra short wheelbase and is considered the smallest standard-gauge Pacific in the world. It has a large grate for burning low-quality coal, but no brick arch and no superheater.
It pulled the “Elkmont Special,” which started in Knoxville until 1938, when the Little River became a pure logging railroad again. The 110 was now purchased by the Smoky Mountain Railroad and pulled freight trains there until 1954. Since 1976 it has been running on the new Little River Railroad, which is based in Michigan. It is still used there today as the flagship of this heritage railroad.
Technical data
General
- Built
- 1911
- Manufacturers
- Baldwin
- Wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2 (Pacific)
- Gauge
- 1,435 mm (Standard gauge)
Dimensions and weights
- Wheelbase
- 7.11 m
- Service mass
- 49.4 t
- Adhesion mass
- 32.7 t
- Total mass
- 90.3 t
- Rigid wheelbase
- 2.54 m
- Axle load
- 10.9 t
- Water capacity
- 13,249 l
- Fuel capacity
- 5.4 t (coal)
Boiler
- Grate area
- 2.787 m²
- Firebox surface
- 9.29 m²
- Tube heating surface
- 145.115 m²
- Evaporative heating surface
- 154.405 m²
- Total heating surface
- 154.4 m²
Power plant
- Driver diameter
- 1,194 mm
- Boiler pressure
- 12.4 bar
- Expansion type
- simple expansion
- Cylinders
- two, 406 x 559 mm
Power
- Power source
- steam
- Estimated power
- 597 kW (812 PS)
- Starting effort
- 81.6 kN
Calculated values
- Factor of adhesion
- 1 : 3.93
- Optimal speed
- 45 km/h
- Power-to-weight ratio
- 12.1 kW/t
- Heating Surface Equivalent
- 200.9 m²
- Cylinder volume/HSE
- 1 : 721.77
- Adhesive weight/Total
- 1 : 1.51
- Tractive force/Heating surface
- 1 : 11.03
- Grate area/Heating surface
- 1 : 55.40
- Firebox/Tube surface
- 1 : 15.62
