Pennsylvania class CC2s
In 1919, Baldwin built ten large 0-8-8-0 Mallets for the PRR. They were designated CC2s and like the CC1s prototype of 1912, they were intended as switchers on the hump yard, as pushers and for transfer services. There they had to run over grades of five percent and through tight curves. By designing the locomotive without leading or trailing axles, all the weight was used for adhesion. Curve negotiation was guaranteed by tight spacing of the relatively small wheels on each group.
Compared to the CC1s, the CC2s had a larger boiler, larger cylinders and smaller drivers with a diameter of only 51 inches. In the result, the starting tractive effort was nearly 100,000 pounds. In contrast to most PRR locomotives, they had no Belpaire firebox. Anyway, their fireboxes had a combustion chamber and arch tubes. They were scrapped between 1947 and 1949.
Technical data
General
- Built
- 1919
- Manufacturers
- Baldwin
- Wheel arrangement
- 0-8-8-0 (Angus (Mallet))
- Gauge
- 1,435 mm (Standard gauge)
Dimensions and weights
- Wheelbase
- 12.23 m
- Total wheelbase
- 23.99 m
- Service mass
- 207.8 t
- Adhesion mass
- 207.8 t
- Total mass
- 294.8 t
- Rigid wheelbase
- 4.50 m
- Axle load
- 26 t
- Water capacity
- 37,854 l
- Fuel capacity
- 18.1 t (coal)
Boiler
- Grate area
- 8.947 m²
- Firebox surface
- 36.325 m²
- Tube heating surface
- 430.978 m²
- Evaporative heating surface
- 467.303 m²
- Superheater surface
- 130.622 m²
- Total heating surface
- 597.9 m²
Power plant
- Driver diameter
- 1,295 mm
- Boiler pressure
- 15.5 bar
- Expansion type
- compound
- Cylinders
- four, HP: 660 x 711 mm and LP: 1,016 x 711 mm
Power
- Power source
- steam
- Estimated power
- 2,834 kW (3,853 PS)
- Starting effort
- 443.9 kN
- Starting effort simple
- 532.7 kN
Calculated values
- Factor of adhesion
- 1 : 4.59
- Optimal speed
- 39 km/h
- Power-to-weight ratio
- 13.6 kW/t
- Heating Surface Equivalent
- 910.2 m²
- Cylinder volume/HSE
- 1 : 1,168.80
- Adhesive weight/Total
- 1 : 1.00
- Tractive force/Heating surface
- 1 : 15.51
- Grate area/Heating surface
- 1 : 66.83
- Firebox/Tube surface
- 1 : 11.86
- Total/Superheater
- 1 : 3.58