Chesapeake and Ohio 2716

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Chesapeake and Ohio 2716
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C&O No. 2716 on display at the Kentucky Railway Museum in November 2013
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
Builder American Locomotive Company (ALCO)
Serial number70865
Build dateDecember 1943
Specifications
Configuration:
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 •  Whyte 2-8-4
 •  UIC 1′D2′ h2
Gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Leading dia. 33 in (83.820 cm)
Driver dia.69 in (1.753 m)
Trailing dia. 36 in (91.440 cm) (Lead)
43 in (109.220 cm) (Trail)
Tender wheels36 in (91.440 cm)
Minimum curve 288 ft (88 m) radius/ 20°
Wheelbase 93 ft 2 in (28.40 m) (Total)
Length105 ft 1+7⁄8 in (32.05 m)
Width10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Height15 ft 7+1⁄2 in (4.76 m)
Axle load 73,000 lb (37 short tons)
Adhesive weight 292,000 lb (146 short tons)
Loco weight460,000 lb (230 short tons)
Tender weight390,000 lb (200 short tons)
Total weight850,000 lb (420 short tons)
Tender type21-RG
Fuel type Coal (to be converted to fuel oil)
Fuel capacity30 short tons (27 t)
Water cap.21,000 US gallons (79,000 L; 17,000 imp gal)
Firebox:​
 • Grate area90 sq ft (8.4 m2)
Boiler:
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 • ModelFire Tube
 • Diameter98 in (2,489 mm)
 • Tube plates19 ft (6 m)
Boiler pressure245 psi (1.69 MPa)
Feedwater heater Worthington 5 1/2 SA
10,200 US gallon / hr capacity
Heating surface:​
 • Firebox465 sq ft (43.2 m2)
 • Tubes and flues4,308 sq ft (400.2 m2)
 • Total surface4,773 sq ft (443.4 m2)
Superheater:
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 • TypeType E
 • Heating area1,932 sq ft (179.5 m2)
Cylinders Two, outside
Cylinder size 26 in × 34 in (660 mm × 864 mm)
Valve gear Baker
Valve type Piston valves
Valve travel8 in (203 mm)
Valve lap1+11⁄16 in (43 mm)
Valve lead3⁄16 in (5 mm)
Train heatingSteam heat
Loco brake Pneumatic, Schedule 8-ET
Train brakes Pneumatic
Performance figures
Maximum speed70 mph (112.65 km/h)
Tractive effort 69,350 lbf (308.48 kN) (Engine)
14,000 lbf (62.28 kN) (Booster)
83,350 lbf (370.76 kN) (Total)
Factor of adh. 4.21 (Engine)
4.6 (Booster)
Career
Operators Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (1943–1956)
Southern Railway (leased from 1981–1982)
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (leased from 1995–1996)
Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (leased from 2021–present)
Class K-4
Number in class17 of 90
Numbers
  • C&O 2716
  • SOU 2716
  • L&N 1992 (cosmetically)
NicknamesKanawha
LocaleEastern United States
DeliveredDecember 1943
Retired1956 (revenue service)
1982 (1st excursion service)
October 1996 (2nd excursion service)
Preserved1959
RestoredOctober 10, 1981 (1st restoration)
July 1996 (2nd restoration)
Current owner Kentucky Railway Museum
Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (leased operator)
DispositionUndergoing restoration to operating condition
References: [1]

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 2716 is a class "K-4" 2-8-4 "Kanawha" (Berkshire) type steam locomotive built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). While most railroads referred to these 2-8-4 type locomotives as Berkshires , the C&O referred to them as Kanawhas after the Kanawha River, which flows through West Virginia. Used as a dual service locomotive, No. 2716 and its classmates served the C&O in a variety of duties until being retired from revenue service in 1956.

Contents

Donated to the Kentucky Railway Museum of New Haven, Kentucky in 1959, No. 2716 has been restored to operation in excursion service twice since its retirement from the C&O, first in 1981 for the Southern Railway's steam program until 1982, and again in 1996 for a few brief excursions for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) in New Haven, Indiana. The locomotive is undergoing an extensive rebuild to operating condition for a third excursion career, under lease by the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation.

History

Revenue service and first retirement

No. 2716 was the seventeenth member of 90 class "K-4" Kanawhas built for the C&O by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and the Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) between 1943 and 1947. [1] [2] These locomotives were used to haul heavy freight trains, as well as fast passenger trains. [2] After only thirteen years in revenue service, the C&O retired No. 2716 in 1956 in light of dieselization. [2] [3] The C&O sold the majority of their Kanawhas for scrap, save for thirteen locomotives, including No. 2716. [2]

In May 1959, the locomotive was donated to the Kentucky Railway Museum (KRM) in New Haven, Kentucky, where it sat on display. [4] Twenty years later, the Clinchfield Railroad (CRR) leased No. 2716 for use in their steam program. [4] However, as the locomotive was being taken apart for restoration, the Clinchfield steam program was cancelled due to its parent company Seaboard Coast Line Industries's ouster of the CRR General Manager Thomas D. Moore Jr. for participating in a scandal of misappropriated money, and the disassembled No. 2716 was returned to the KRM. [4] [5]

Southern excursion service and second retirement

No. 2716 pulling a SOU excursion at Montpelier, Virginia, in July 1982 Montpelier virginia (4095608035).jpg
No. 2716 pulling a SOU excursion at Montpelier, Virginia, in July 1982

In 1980, No. 2716 was leased by the Southern Railway (SOU) to pull the longer and heavier passenger trains for their ever popular steam excursion program. [2] [6] The SOU brought the locomotive to their steam locomotive workshop in Irondale, Alabama, where Master Mechanic Bill Purdie significantly altered the locomotive's appearance to appear as if the SOU had once owned the 2-8-4 type. [2] No. 2716 was painted black with gold pinstriping, while the front smokebox plate was painted in a lighter graphite color. [7] The headlight was moved from its pilot to the center of its smokebox door, decorated with brass flag holders, and a brass eagle ornament. [7] Additionally, the locomotive had its bell swinging from the top of its smokebox and carried the round "SR" emblems on its air compressor shields. [7]

After operating on a test run on October 10 and 11, 1981, [7] No. 2716 pulled its first SOU excursions on October 17 and 18, running a round-trip from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Rockwood, Tennessee. [8] In November 1981, No. 2716 pulled excursion trains in Alabama and Georgia. [7] [8] In April 1982, the locomotive resumed its excursion duties, pulling trains through North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. [8] But three months later, a very inexperienced fireman damaged the locomotive's firebox, resulting No. 2716 to be taken out of excursion service for repairs and Nickel Plate Road No. 765, another 2-8-4, based in Indiana, was called into service as a replacement. [9] [10]

Following the merger between the Southern and the Norfolk and Western (N&W) railways to form the new Norfolk Southern Railway, [11] No. 2716 was retired in favor of N&W No. 611 in 1982, along with N&W No. 1218 later on in 1987, serving as the main motive power for the steam program. [9] It was put into storage at the Irondale workshop in 1985, after attempts to weld cracks in the firebox failed. [10] [12]

Brief excursion service with FWRHS and third retirement

After Norfolk Southern ended their steam program in late 1994, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS), the owner of NKP No. 765, reached an agreement with the Kentucky Railway Museum to sign a new lease to operate No. 2716. [2] [13] [14] In 1995, the locomotive was moved to the FWRHS' location in New Haven, Indiana, and work began to revert it to its C&O livery and to repair its firebox with new sheets and patches. [2] [13] [14] By July 15, 1996, repairs on No. 2716 were completed, and the locomotive pulled a freight train on the Toledo, Peoria and Western (TP&W) around Logansport. [14] On July 20-21, No. 2716 pulled some excursions on the TP&W and the Winamac Southern (WSRY) during the Logansport Iron Horse Festival. [14]

The FWRHS created a schedule for No. 2716 to pull additional excursion trains in 1997, but all of them were cancelled, when the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) declined to allow the locomotive any flue extensions and ordered for new flues to be installed. [15] [16] The FWRHS then decided to give up on operating No. 2716 and concentrate their efforts and investment on rebuilding No. 765. [16] In February 2001, No. 2716 was towed back to the KRM, and the locomotive remained on static display there for the next sixteen years. [13] [17] [18]

Third restoration

On February 7, 2016, the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (KSHC) was formed and announced that it had signed a long-term lease with the Kentucky Railway Museum to restore and operate No. 2716. [19] During which, No. 2716's appearance was temporarily altered to resemble a Louisville and Nashville M-1 Big Emma locomotive No. 1992 for the annual L&N Historical Society convention. [20] In May 2018, the KSHC partnered with the CSX Transportation to move the locomotive to a former Louisville and Nashville rail yard in Ravenna, Kentucky to build a new rail-based tourist and community development center. [21] In November 2018, the KSHC acquired three pieces of rolling stock from the Indiana Transportation Museum (ITM) such as an auxiliary tender No. 251958, an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) railway post office car No. 6565, and baggage car No. 9036 for use behind No. 2716. [22]

In January 2019, the Big Rivers Electric Corporation in Henderson, Kentucky salvaged a pair of Buckeye three-axle, roller bearing trucks from a flatcar, which was abandoned at their facility property in Hawesville, Kentucky; and donated them to the KSHC to replace the old friction bearing trucks underneath No. 2716's tender. [23] [24] From July 26 to 28, 2019, No. 2716 was moved out of the Kentucky Railway Museum for the first time in 18 years and went to Ravenna, Kentucky for restoration along with the help of CSX Transportation and R.J. Corman Railroad Group. [25] [lower-alpha 1] The locomotive was officially moved into the Ravenna workshop on July 31 and the restoration work on No. 2716 started shortly after. [3] [29] During the restoration work, the locomotive's firebox side sheets, which were patched up twice during its two previous restorations in 1981 and 1996, were replaced with newly fabricated ones. [30]

In March 2022, the KSHC was in exchange with the Pueblo Railway Museum (PRM) in Pueblo, Colorado to swap out two of No. 2716's inoperable air compressors with two operational air compressors that came off of PRM's inoperable Santa Fe Class 2900 steam locomotive No. 2912. [31] [32] In September 2022, the KSHC purchased new boiler flues from the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum's nearly identical No. 2789 locomotive for use on the former's No. 2716 locomotive. [33] [34]

The KSHC announced in June 2023 that No. 2716's firebox will eventually be modified to burn fuel oil instead of coal. [35] In October 2023, the KSHC received $1.9 million from the Government of Kentucky to aid the locomotive's restoration and its potential area. [36] In November 2023, No. 2716's original feedwater pump was removed to replace the damaged one on Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700 in Portland, Oregon, while the former would eventually receive a replacement pump from the No. 2912 locomotive. [37] [38] Once the restoration work is finished, the No. 2716 locomotive will eventually visit the Railroad Museum of New England, running on the Naugatuck Railroad in Connecticut. [39]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ It was moved for the second time by the Clinchfield EMD F7 diesel locomotive No. 800, which had previously moved No. 2716 to Marion, North Carolina for restoration in 1979. [26] [27] [28]

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