Wheeling & Lake Erie class B-5
United States 1929 36 produced
The class B-5 of the Wheeling & Lake Erie was a copy of the USRA 0-6-0 switcher. Between 1929 and 1944, the railroad's own Brewster shops built a total of 36 which were more modern than the original USRA design. New features were roller bearings on all axles and inside bearing tender trucks. The firebox now included 30 square feet of thermic syphons. These locomotives carried the numbers 3951 to 3986 and had slightly varying dimensions and weights depending on the batch. They were retired between 1952 and 1957 and all but two were scrapped which can today be found in Ohio. No. 3960 belongs to the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek and No. 3984 to the Lorain & West Virginia Railway in Wellington.
Technical data
General
- Built
- 1929-1944
- Manufacturers
- Brewster
- Wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0 (Six-coupled)
- Gauge
- 1,435 mm (Standard gauge)
Dimensions and weights
- Length
- 20.34 m
- Wheelbase
- 3.35 m
- Total wheelbase
- 15.18 m
- Empty mass
- 69.1 t
- Service mass
- 76.1 t
- Adhesion mass
- 76.1 t
- Total mass
- 150.2 t
- Rigid wheelbase
- 3.35 m
- Axle load
- 25.7 t
- Water capacity
- 32,365 l
- Fuel capacity
- 12.7 t (coal)
Boiler
- Grate area
- 3.066 m²
- Firebox surface
- 14.865 m²
- Tube heating surface
- 175.866 m²
- Evaporative heating surface
- 190.73 m²
- Superheater surface
- 37.997 m²
- Total heating surface
- 228.7 m²
Power plant
- Driver diameter
- 1,295 mm
- Boiler pressure
- 13.8 bar
- Expansion type
- simple expansion
- Cylinders
- two, 533 x 711 mm
Power
- Power source
- steam
- Estimated power
- 969 kW (1,317 PS)
- Starting effort
- 183.1 kN
Calculated values
- Factor of adhesion
- 1 : 4.08
- Optimal speed
- 32 km/h
- Power-to-weight ratio
- 12.7 kW/t
- Heating Surface Equivalent
- 341.1 m²
- Cylinder volume/HSE
- 1 : 931.96
- Adhesive weight/Total
- 1 : 1.00
- Tractive force/Heating surface
- 1 : 16.72
- Grate area/Heating surface
- 1 : 74.60
- Firebox/Tube surface
- 1 : 11.83
- Total/Superheater
- 1 : 5.02
