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Pennsylvania class L1s

No. 520 on display at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg in 1993

The PRR's class L1s was a Mikado that received the same boiler as the K4s class Pacific. Despite the great performance of this boiler with the Belpaire firebox , these locomotives were not equipped with a stoker ex wo...

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Variant Standard
Built 1914-1919
Manufacturers Altoona;Baldwin;Lima
Wheel arrangement 1D1
Gauge 1435 mm
Length
Service mass 142882 kg
Top speed
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General

Property Pennsylvania class L1s
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Built 1914-1919
Manufacturers Altoona, Baldwin, Lima
Wheel arrangement 2-8-2 (Mikado)
Gauge 1,435 mm

Dimensions and weights

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Wheelbase 11.09 m
Total wheelbase 22.02 m
Service mass 142.9 t
Adhesion mass 108 t
Total mass 214.5 t
Rigid wheelbase 5.19 m
Axle load 26.8 t
Water capacity 26,498 l
Fuel capacity 11.3 t (coal)

Boiler

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Grate area 6.503 m²
Firebox surface 28.01 m²
Tube heating surface 346.854 m²
Evaporative heating surface 374.864 m²
Superheater surface 107.21 m²
Total heating surface 482.1 m²

Power plant

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Driver diameter 1,575 mm
Boiler pressure 14.1 bar
Expansion type simple expansion
Cylinders two, 686 x 762 mm

Power

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Power source steam
Estimated power 2,312 kW (3,143 PS)
Starting effort 273.4 kN

Calculated values

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Factor of adhesion 1 : 3.87
Optimal speed 51 km/h
Power-to-weight ratio 16.2 kW/t
Heating Surface Equivalent 729.3 m²
Cylinder volume/HSE 1 : 771.87
Adhesive weight/Total 1 : 1.32
Tractive force/Heating surface 1 : 11.85
Grate area/Heating surface 1 : 74.13
Firebox/Tube surface 1 : 12.38
Total/Superheater 1 : 3.50
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