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Tom Shreve

June 25, 2001 03:38PM

According to David Conrad's Steam Locomotive Directory of North America The engine is a 2-8-0 Baldwin built in June of 1914 for the Death Valley Railroad. It was sold to U.S. Potash in 1931 and donated to the City of Carlsbad sometime after 1956.
C/N: 41473
cylinders: 18x20
driver diameter: 42 inches
boiler pressure: 160 pounds
engine weight: 100,000 pounds
weight on drivers: 80,000 pounds
tractive effort: 20,980
fuel: oil

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US Potash Loco in Carlsbad	Tom Stewart	June 23, 2001 05:42PM
Re: US Potash Loco in Carlsbad	Tom Shreve	June 25, 2001 03:38PM

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