FC Girardot - Tolima - Huila No. 61 to 71
Colombia 1944 11 produced
Between 1944 and 1947, Baldwin delivered eleven modern 4-8-2 locomotives to Colombia. They were numbered 61 to 71 and most were for the Ferrocarril Girardot-Tolima-Huila. Although they were only narrow gauge locomotives with a gauge of three feet, they had many modern features. These included a type A superheater, Worthington feed water heater, power reverser, limited cutoff and cast cylinders. The size of the cylinders was relatively small compared to the boiler, what meant that these locomotives were good for running long uphill stretches at full power.
Technical data
General
- Built
- 1944-1947
- Manufacturers
- Baldwin
- Wheel arrangement
- 4-8-2 (Mountain)
- Gauge
- 914 mm (Three feet)
Dimensions and weights
- Wheelbase
- 8.92 m
- Total wheelbase
- 16.79 m
- Service mass
- 81.2 t
- Adhesion mass
- 55.3 t
- Total mass
- 119.3 t
- Rigid wheelbase
- 3.51 m
- Axle load
- 13.8 t
- Water capacity
- 15,142 l
- Fuel capacity
- 0.7 t (oil)
Boiler
- Grate area
- 4.459 m²
- Firebox surface
- 14.586 m²
- Tube heating surface
- 215.535 m²
- Evaporative heating surface
- 230.121 m²
- Superheater surface
- 63.639 m²
- Total heating surface
- 293.8 m²
Power plant
- Driver diameter
- 1,067 mm
- Boiler pressure
- 14.5 bar
- Expansion type
- simple expansion
- Cylinders
- two, 470 x 559 mm
Power
- Power source
- steam
- Estimated power
- 1,342 kW (1,825 PS)
- Starting effort
- 142.3 kN
Calculated values
- Factor of adhesion
- 1 : 3.81
- Optimal speed
- 58 km/h
- Power-to-weight ratio
- 16.5 kW/t
- Heating Surface Equivalent
- 430.3 m²
- Cylinder volume/HSE
- 1 : 450.39
- Adhesive weight/Total
- 1 : 1.47
- Tractive force/Heating surface
- 1 : 10.12
- Grate area/Heating surface
- 1 : 65.88
- Firebox/Tube surface
- 1 : 14.78
- Total/Superheater
- 1 : 3.62