Fw: Saving Engines

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David,

Thanks for the info.  I am forwarding this data to Bev Firzpatrick of the 
VMT who will be a key person in any relocation of these engines.

Gordon Hamilton

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> >From the Office of General Supt. Motive Power, Jan 26, 1943, revised Jan 

> >10, 1944 (Table, WEIGHT OF SCRAP - STEAM LOCOMOTIVES)

>

> W2

> Weight in working order - 175,100 lbs

> Scrap weight, estimated at 83% of wt in working order - 145,330 lbs

> Axles and rods - 5,810 lbs

> Bronze - 900 lbs

> boiler and firebox - 27,610 lbs

> Extra Heavycast iron - 23,250 lbs

> Flues - 7,900 lbs

> Tires - 5,600 lbs

> Misc unsorted - 74,260 lbs

>

> M2, M2c

> Weight in working order - 262,000 lbs

> Scrap weight, estimated at 83% of wt in working order - 217,460 lbs

> Axles and rods - 8,700 lbs

> Bronze - 1,300 lbs

> Boiler and firebox - 41,320 lbs

> Extra Heavycast iron - 30,440 lbs

> Bed castings, driving wheel centers - 6,520 lbs

> Flues - 14,600 lbs

> Tires - 6,000 lbs

> Misc unsorted - 103,140 lbs

>

> This table includes all classes in service at the time.  Original in NWHS 

> archives.  Have copy here, can duplicate for interested parties.

>

> FWIW

>

> Dave Stephenson

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> --- On Thu, 1/17/08, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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>> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> Subject: Re: Saving Engines

>> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> Date: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 11:36 PM

>> "I found it odd that it was mentioned that the NS

>> didn't know how much the locos weighed.

>> Jimmy Lisle"

>>

>> "Why would NS know how much the engines weigh?  They

>> haven't been company property for 50 years.  At this

>> point, NS and most other class I's probably

>> couldn't tell you how much a GP9 weighs.

>> Marty Flick"

>>

>> Sorry Marty, I was caught in the act of assuming that there

>> was someone at NS that had enough sense to do just a wee

>> little bit of research.

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