Oahu Railway K-28s on NGDF
| October 12, 2019 12:58PM |
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Has anyone here ever discussed any info about the K-28 locomotives used on the Oahu Railroad & Land Company? I have been really interested in them for the past couple months, and I would like to learn as much as possible about them.
In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, in the late 1920s the Oahu Railroad was interested in getting some more powerful motive power and was impressed by the Performance of the D&RGW’s K-28s, so they ordered 4 more K-28s from ALCO.
These Locomotives have a few differences when compared to the D&RGW’s, most notably the air compressors were moved to the fireman’s side of the boiler, as well as the locomotive being fired by oil, a different headlight, pilot, and smokebox door. But believe it or not, you are looking at a Narrow Guage Mikado with a tractive effort of 28,000 lbf.
Also these locomotives existence are not known by many people, so I would also like to help spread the word about them, lots of mysteries have yet to be solved related to the final disposition of them, should a previous forum about them not exist, I’ll happily share more about what I currently know.
Joe Weigman
from the D&RG City Mine spur
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2019 01:20PM by Joe Weigman.
In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, in the late 1920s the Oahu Railroad was interested in getting some more powerful motive power and was impressed by the Performance of the D&RGW’s K-28s, so they ordered 4 more K-28s from ALCO.
These Locomotives have a few differences when compared to the D&RGW’s, most notably the air compressors were moved to the fireman’s side of the boiler, as well as the locomotive being fired by oil, a different headlight, pilot, and smokebox door. But believe it or not, you are looking at a Narrow Guage Mikado with a tractive effort of 28,000 lbf.
Also these locomotives existence are not known by many people, so I would also like to help spread the word about them, lots of mysteries have yet to be solved related to the final disposition of them, should a previous forum about them not exist, I’ll happily share more about what I currently know.
Joe Weigman
from the D&RG City Mine spur
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2019 01:20PM by Joe Weigman.
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