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Specifications for
the Baltimore & Ohio RR Locomotives 188, 231 & 235 |
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| Confederate Names: #188 -- Lady Davis, Calvin Graves; #231
-- Colonel A. C. Myers, Holder Rhodes; #235 -- Powhatan,
President Jefferson Davis |
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| Information found in Bell, The Early Motive Power of the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad, 1912, pages 49- 54, reformatted for
ease of reading. |
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| #231 & #235 built in August, 1857, by William Mason and #188
in November, 1858, built by B&O (as an exact copy of the Mason
locomotives). |
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| Cylinders: 16" x 22" |
| Driving Wheels: 60" diameter, of chilled cast iron |
| Weight: 54,000 pounds, estimated from like locomotives. |
| Boiler shell: 5/16" iron, in straight form |
| Boiler diameter: 46 5/8" at the first ring, with a 24" dome
over the firebox |
| Number of tubes: 106 |
| Diameter of tubes: 2 1/4" |
| Length of tubes: 11 feet 2 1/2" |
| Firebox heating surface: 86.5 square feet |
| Tube heating surface: 694.5 square feet |
| Total heating surface: 781 square feet |
| Steam pressure: A little above 100 pounds |
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| Engine No. 188 was the first locomotive of the
road that was painted black with gold striping, and attracted
much attention by reason of her novel and handsome appearance.
Indian red had been previously, and was for a number of years
thereafter, the standard color for both passenger and freight
engines, and the substitution of black was a decided novelty,
which, although not continued, met with general approval. This
engine was, with a number of others, captured by the Confederate
forces during the Civil War, and was taken to Richmond, where
she was considered to be the best of the lot, and was fitted
with a walnut cab and called the "Lady Davis." She was doubtless
destroyed, as were a number of the other engines.
{This last sentence is in error -- the
locomotive was returned to the B&O after the war, repaired and
put back into service.} |
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| This sketch was made by author Bell in 1866. |