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Colorado Springs and
Cripple Creek District Railway
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Last updated: 24.11.2010 08:34
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The Railway Age March 1, 1901
(page 167)
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LOCOMOTIVES
FOR THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT.
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 The
formal opening of the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek
District Railway occurred on September 1, 1900. The name
of the company sufficiently indicates the nature of the
district to be served.
It
is primarily an outlet to the Cripple Creek mining
district, and the product of the mines will form the
greater part of the material transported. The road has a
maximum grade of 3.5 per cent, or compensated for
curvature 3.8 per cent.
This,
however, is for but a short distance, and with this
exception the maximum grade in either direction is 2 per
cent. Eastbound grades do not exceed the latter figure.
Locomotives
for this service have recently been built by the
Schenectady Locomotive Works, and two of them are
illustrated herewith from photographs furnished by the
builders.
These
are a consolidation freight and a 6-coupled, double-end
switching engine, with 2-wheel swing bolster trucks at
each end.
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SCHENECTADY FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE -
COLORADO SPRINGS & CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT
RAILWAY No. 1. |
The
consolidation engine weighs 108,000 pounds in
working order, of which 151,000 pounds are on the
driving wheels. The cylinders are 22 by 20 inches,
and the valves of the Richardson balanced type.
The
driving wheels are 51 inches in diameter. The boiler
is straight, 74.375 inches in diameter, and adapted
to a working pressure of 180 pounds. The material of
the barrel and outside of firebox is Carnegie steel,
except the top and sides, which are of Worth steel. |
The
length of the firebox is 120 inches, and the width 41
inches. The material is carbon steel, and the tubes, which
are of Tyler charcoal iron, are 376 in number and 2 inches
in diameter.
The
length over tube sheets is 156 inches. The total heating
surface is 2,738.55 square feet.
The
tender has a frame of 10-inch steel channels, a tank
capacity of 5,000 gallons and coal capacity of nine tons.
The
switching engine weighs 133,000 pounds, of which
106,000 pounds are on the drivers. Its cylinders are
19 by 24 inches. The boiler is straight, 66.25
inches in diameter, and will carry 180 pounds'
pressure.
The
firebox is 90 by 33.125 inches. The tubes are of
Tyler make, 280 in number, and 2 inches in diameter,
and afford a heating surface of 1,000.47 square
feet. The total heating surface is 1,748.94 square
feet.
The
tender has a capacity of 3,500 gallons of water and
six tons of coal. The frames are 10-inch steel
channels. |
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SCHENECTADY SWITCHING LOCOMOTIVE -
COLORADO SPRINGS & CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT
RAILWAY No. 101. |
The
equipment of both engines includes United States metallic
packing, Monitor injectors, Westinghouse-American combined
brakes, with 9.5-inch pump, Le Chatelier water brake on
cylinders, Magnesia sectional lagging, Coale safety
valves, McIntosh blow-off cocks, Leach sanding apparatus,
Tower couplers and Sterlingworth (Marden) brakebeams on
the tender.
The
freight engine has the Pyle-National electric headlight.
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