Draft:Baldwin Class 8/18 C

Baldwin Class 8/18 C
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderBaldwin Locomotive Works
ModelBaldwin 8/18 C
Build date1875–1916
Specifications
Configuration:
 • Whyte4-4-0
 • UIC2′B n
Gauge3 ft (914 mm)
Driver dia.42 in (1,067 mm)
Loco weight22 short tons (20.0 t)
Fuel typeWood
Boiler pressure120 psi (0.83 MPa)
CylindersTwo, outside
Cylinder size12 in × 16 in (300 mm × 410 mm)
Performance figures
Tractive effort5,595 lbf (24.89 kN)
Career
DispositionFour preserved, remainder scrapped

The Baldwin Class 8/18 C is a class of 4-4-0 "American" or "Eight-Wheeler" type steam locomotives that were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for several railroads all across the United States of America between 1875 and 1916.

Construction and delivery edit

In all, many Baldwin Class 10-32-D were constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works between 1915 and 1927 and they were all delivered to their respective railroads all across the United States of America after their day of construction, they were also built for several railways in Central America and even as far as Brazil.

Original buyers edit

Photograph Railroad Quantity Road numbers Refs
  Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway 1 2
  North Pacific Coast Railroad 1 12

Preservation edit

A total of four locomotives are still left in preservation:

- Eureka & Palisade Railroad#4 Eureka, built in 1875. Now owned by Daniel Markoff in Las Vegas, Nevada. Has seen service on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Colorado.

- North Pacific Coast Railroad #12, Sonoma, built in 1876. Now at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California on static display.

- Santa Cruz Railroad #3 Jupiter, built in 1876. Now on static display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

- Walt Disney World Railroad #4 Roy O. Disney, built in February 1916. Now at the World Disney World Railroad in Bay Lake, Florida.