Steam & Excursion > 0-8-8-0's, 1907-1922

I spent some time with LeMassena's Articulated Locomotives book, and with a few builders lists, and developed a summary of 0-8-8-0's. My interest is in placing the seven Bingham & Garfield 0-8-8-0's in context, after learning that the B&G engines were essentially identical to the three Erie camel-back engines.

Turns out there were 41 of these "standard" engines built by Alco between 1907 and 1922, for eight different railroads. The major difference between the various engines was that 23 of them had wide fireboxes (at 100 square feet) and the other 18 had normal-width fireboxes (at 81 or 94 square feet).

Back in January, Larry Doyle made the comment that they also differed in that the Erie engines had saturated steam and the B&G engines had superheated steam. I have not yet found a source for the other engines showing similar differences.

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5410850,5410850#msg-5410850

I created a web page that summarizes what I found, including a chart comparing them.

https://utahrails.net/bingham/bingham-garfield-steam-100-106.php

I also lifted the information from the LeMassena book showing the various 0-8-8-0's and put the results in an online photo album.

https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Bingham-Canyon/BG-0-8-8-0s/

Don Strack



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/22 04:26 by donstrack.

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Nice job on the website. I like those NYC Lines family ones.

And that D&H one looks quite odd.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/22 16:24 by train1275.

On center-cabs like the Erie 2600, how was the crewmen seated?  Engineer on one side and brakeman on opposite or were they on same side?  Assuming the fireman was at rear of firebox doing his job.

rrman6 Wrote:
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> On center-cabs like the Erie 2600, how was the
> crewmen seated?  Engineer on one side and
> brakeman on opposite or were they on same side?
>  Assuming the fireman was at rear of firebox
> doing his job.

That would probably be firemen plural. Those big fireboxes had a big appitite!
Some of those lomotives with the big fireboxes had backheads with two firedoors because of the width.