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Power type | Diesel Electric |
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Builder | General Electric |
Model | 25 ton |
Build date | 1940-43 |
Configuration | 0-4-0 |
Gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
Weight on drivers | 25 short tons (23 t) |
Locomotive weight | 25 short tons (23 t) |
Fuel type | Diesel |
Engine RPM range | 1800 |
Displacement | 672 cubic inches (11 L) |
Traction motors | one, chain drive to second axle |
Cylinders | 6 |
Cylinder size | 4 × 6. in (124 × 152 mm) 7⁄8 |
Top speed | 20 mph (32 km/h) |
Power output | 150 hp (112 kW) |
Tractive effort | 15,000 lbf (67 kN) |
Locomotive brakes | Air |
Train brakes | Air |
Last run | unknown |
Current owner | Arkansas Railroad Museum |
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Wabash Alloys Locomotive
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Location: | 1700 Port Rd., Pine Bluff, Arkansas |
Area: | less than one acre |
Built: | 1940 |
Architect: | General Electric |
Governing body: | Private |
NRHP Reference#: | 07000444[3] |
Added to NRHP: | May 22, 2007 |
The Wabash Alloys Locomotive is a GE 25-ton diesel-electric locomotive built in 1940-43. Little is known about its early life, but from around 1970, it worked at Wabash Alloys, a producer of aluminum alloys, at Haskell, Arkansas.
It eventually became surplus to the company's needs and they donated it to the Arkansas Railroad Museum at Pine Bluff, Arkansas on March 8, 2003.[4][5]
The 25-ton model was the smallest locomotive in the GE range in the 1940's and 50's. It was designed for the small industrial user. With 150 hp (112 kW) and 15,000 lbf (67 kN) of tractive effort, it could pull half a dozen loaded cars on the level.[1] Although the Arkansas nomination document asserts that "large Class I railroads would have used them for switching on light branch lines,"[5] standard freight cars of the time were up to 70 tons (64t) gross weight, or 17.5 tons (16t) per axle, so there was little need for 12.5 ton (11t) per axle locomotives on railroads, even on light branch lines,[6] but GE built hundreds of them for industrial users.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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