Brand New 0-4-0

Thats some light rail. Looks like about 30lb.

Pete

Its is actually an 0-4-0T.

Now that is what is called small steam.

Same as the famous B&O "Docksider"?

Tinplate Art posted:

Same as the famous B&O "Docksider"?

I don't think so, as this little guy appears to be even smaller. Note how the coupler is mounted to the top of the front end-beam, as though it is just temporary for moving the little engine around the plant.

Plus, the B&O models were built by Baldwin, and weighed 120,000 lbs.

Don,

A great pic of an 0-4-0!

Matt

Cool little beast - handy for tight spots in foundries and construction. Reminds me of the little Brit 0-4-0Ts in coal gas plants. The engines were small enough to fit under the coke retorts, had no cabs and only jockey-size men were hired as engineers!

Hasn't even been scratched yet. 

It would be worth more if they still had the box.

Definitely two rail and factory painted, but probably not brass.

A B&O Docksider was a bit larger and more modern - piston valves and Walschaerts valve gear

Right Of Way O Gauge model. Sounds came from an adjacent boxcar

New Jersey Zinc are the people that developed the refining process that got the lead out of zinc that should have put an end to zinc castings falling apart. 

I think I read some place that the B&O dockside (C16) was among the heaviest of the 0-4-0s built.     I think there were 4 of the B&O locos and 2 later had the saddle tanks removed and were given coal tenders.     I had a USH model with tender and it was a great little loco.

ReadingFan posted:

A B&O Docksider was a bit larger and more modern - piston valves and Walschaerts valve gear

 

 

 

Not that much more modern.  The B&O 0-4-0T's were built in 1912, only one year later that the NJZ locomotive.  Slide valves may have been a customer specification or piston valves may not have been an option for such a small locomotive.

Walschaerts valve gear was invented in Belgium in 1844.  The first use of Walschaerts valve gear in the US was on a Mason Bogie in 1874.

Rusty

prrjim posted:

I think I read some place that the B&O dockside (C16) was among the heaviest of the 0-4-0s built.     

Yes, and heavier than some larger engines.  They had an axle loading much heavier than many much bigger engines.  They were notorious for tearing up track, as I understand it.

Rusty Traque posted:

ReadingFan posted:

A B&O Docksider was a bit larger and more modern - piston valves and Walschaerts valve gear

 

 

 

Not that much more modern.  The B&O 0-4-0T's were built in 1912, only one year later that the NJZ locomotive.  Slide valves may have been a customer specification or piston valves may not have been an option for such a small locomotive.

Exactly. The Vulcan 0-4-0T I work on at the New Hope Valley Ry. was built in 1941, and still used slide valves and Stephenson valve gear.