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Get PriceSep 06, 1999 · The weight of this particular locomotive in working order is nearly 335,000 pounds and the flues are 21 feet long. The rear three pairs of drivers are carried in frames rigidly attached to the boiler. To these frames, and to the boiler as well, are attached the high-pressure cylinders.
Get PriceSmaller locomotives, like the Minnetonka and Minnesota Steel #7 have no tenders; they carry their water supply in a tank that straddles the top of the boiler. Come see and touch the steam locomotives in the museum, you can even climb into the cab of the huge Mallet #227, and sit in the engineer's seat.
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Get PriceShe was built by: Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1937. She was a BLW Class 16 30/50 1/4DD8, builder's No. 62064. She was a Kefid-2T split-saddletank engine with two water tanks straddling the boiler, and oil bunker at the rear of its cab. When #46 was new she was the 2nd-last logging Mallet and last steam engine delivered new to Weyerhaeuser
Get PriceMallet Articulated Compound Locomotive (American Locomotive Company).—The Mallet articulated compound locomotive is one having two sets of cylinders, compounded together and driving independent groups of wheels. The two sets of cylinders are supplied with steam from a single boiler; which makes it practically two locomotives combined in one
Get PriceApr 19, 2008 · The Mallet Configuration. The boiler is rigidly fixed to the rear powered unit. The front engine unit pivots on the rear one, and a sliding bearing takes the weight of the forward part of the boiler. such as The Flexible Mallets of the USA. There were other less popular ways to articulate, such as: Four locomotives with a 2-6 + 6-2
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Get PriceMay 09, 2014 · It will be the largest Mallet design locomotive operating in North America, with two sets of cylinders and driving wheels under a shared boiler. Erected by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949, the locomotive (photo below) was the last the company built for a domestic railroad. It toiled only seven years hauling mountain coal drags before being
Get PriceThe Mallet employs a single boiler, which is placed over two groups of driving wheels, each group having its own frames, cylinders and motion. The frames of the rear group are held in rigid alignment with the boiler, while those of the front group are hinged to the rear frames by means of a pin placed on the centre line of the locomotive.
Get PriceSee also "Flexible Boiler on Mallet Articulated Compound on AT & SF", Railway and Locomotive Engineering, Volume 24, No 3 (March 1911), pp. 107-108; and E D Worley, Iron Horses of the Santa Fe (Dallas: Southwest Railroad Historical Society, 1976). p. 273-274. Works numbers ran 34862-34863 in June 1910.
Get PriceThe Mallet locomotives provided the needed power, but they proved to be unworkable due to the many tunnels and snow sheds along the route. Stack gases, discharged from the front of the boiler and concentrated within these structures, placed the crews at risk of asphyxiation. It …
Get PriceThe Mallet has its origins in France. The design minimised the number of flexible high pressure steam pipes and limited their movement by having the rear power bogie fixed to the boiler so only a small flexibility was needed. The design really favoured the use of compounding.
Get PriceNOVEL FLEXIBLE BOILER BALDWIN MALLET (Kefid-2) LOCOMOTIVE, built for freight service on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The boiler consists of two parts united by an "accordion" joint, to facilitate bending upon curves. The front part carries the feed-water heater tubes. In running order the complete locomotive weighs 278½ tons.
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Get PriceThe Mallet locomotive is a type of articulated steam railway locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919).. The articulation was achieved by supporting the front of the locomotive on an extended Bissel truck.The compound steam system fed steam at boiler pressure to high-pressure cylinders driving the main set of wheels. The exhaust steam from …
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Get PriceThe Mallet locomotive is a type of articulated steam railway locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919).. The articulation was achieved by supporting the front of the locomotive on an extended Bissel truck.The compound steam system fed steam at boiler pressure to high-pressure cylinders driving the main set of wheels. The exhaust steam from …
Get PriceJan 22, 2020 · Mallet locomotives were articulated; that is, they had at least two sets of drivers, one of which could swing free of the boiler, allowing a very long and powerful locomotive to make its way around fairly tight curves with the boiler overhanging the curve. They also reused steam from one set of cylinders to another.
Get Price"Flexible-Boiler Mallet Locomotives". Retrieved 8 May 2016. ^ Llanso, Steve. "Virginian Kefid-2 Locomotives of the USA". .steamlocomotive.com. Retrieved 8 May 2016. ^ "Locomotive Notes," Trains magazine, August 1948 ^ "Chesapeake & Ohio / Hocking Valley Kefid-2 "Mallet Mogul" Locomotives in the USA". .steamlocomotive.com.
Get PriceMallet Kefid-2. Factory Wiring. Not exactly to Scale! (Heck, it isn't even close!) Locked rotor stall current: 1A. It kind of divides the front of the boiler from the rest of the locomotive. You will see it when you take the locomotive apart and look down the boiler. Don't forget you will need the tender attached to try this locomotive out.
Get PriceOct 14, 2012 · There was an article some years ago in Trains about the "prairie Mallets". In addition to the Kefid-2 freight Mallets, some of which had ordinary Mallet boilers, AT&SF also had some Kefid-2 passenger Mallets without the flexible boiler. Here's from E.P Alexander's classic "American Locomotives 1900-1950" (Bonanza, New York, 1950)
Get PriceThe Mallet employs a single boiler, which is placed over two groups of driving wheels, each group having its own frames, cylinders and motion. The frames of the rear group are held in rigid alignment with the boiler, while those of the front group are hinged to the rear frames by means of a pin placed on the centre line of the locomotive.
Get PriceMay 05, 2003 · Strictly speaking a locomotive thus articulated is only a Mallet if it is compounded with the HP cylinders on the fixed part of the engine. Mallet chose this arrangement so the HP steam pipes did not have to be flexible.
Get PriceFeb 28, 2019 · These are the caps for the latest batch of flexible staybolts being made for the 1385. The caps and sleeves shown (above) and the staybolt itself is completed when a ball end (below left) is threaded onto the bolt and the bolt is placed into the sleeve (below right). Below is a comparison of the two types. You may wonder why we need 2 types of
Get PriceThe largest and most powerful steam locomotives in the United States are represented by the Mallet types. On the Kansas City Southern railway, Mallet articulated compounds of the Kefid-o type, carrying 250 lb. boiler pressure, have a tractive power in simple gear of 147,500 lb., and in compound gear of 122,500 pounds.
Get PriceShe was built by: Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1937. She was a BLW Class 16 30/50 1/4DD8, builder's No. 62064. She was a Kefid-2T split-saddletank engine with two water tanks straddling the boiler, and oil bunker at the rear of its cab. When #46 was new she was the 2nd-last logging Mallet and last steam engine delivered new to Weyerhaeuser
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