Ferrocarriles de Tongoy No. 8 and 9
Chile 1870 2 produced
The Ferrocarriles de Tongoy operated a cape gauge line in Chile between the copper mines of Tamaya and the harbor of Tongoy. After it had been opened in 1867 and had six locomotives, it got the two locomotives shown here from Rogers in 1870. These were two 2-6-0T tank locomotives, No. 8 “Campanil” and No. 9 “Pizarro”.
These were of typical American design and were richly decorated with their names and numbers in very huge letters on the sides of the water tanks. Anyway, they were just standard models of Rogers. The line reached its peak in transported copper ore in 1879 and quickly declined until 1891. But it wasn't closed and the locomotives were only retired in 1910 when the line was converted to meter gauge.
Technical data
General
- Built
- 1870
- Manufacturers
- Rogers
- Wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0T (Mogul)
- Gauge
- 1,067 mm (Cape gauge)
Dimensions and weights
- Wheelbase
- 4.65 m
- Service mass
- 25.4 t
- Rigid wheelbase
- 2.82 m
Boiler
- Grate area
- 1.04 m²
- Firebox surface
- 5.4 m²
- Tube heating surface
- 57.274 m²
- Evaporative heating surface
- 58.157 m²
- Total heating surface
- 58.2 m²
Power plant
- Driver diameter
- 940 mm
- Boiler pressure
- 9 bar
- Expansion type
- simple expansion
- Cylinders
- two, 330 x 457 mm
Power
- Power source
- steam
- Estimated power
- 149 kW (203 PS)
- Starting effort
- 40.4 kN
Calculated values
- Optimal speed
- 23 km/h
- Power-to-weight ratio
- 5.9 kW/t
- Heating Surface Equivalent
- 89.7 m²
- Cylinder volume/HSE
- 1 : 873.20
- Tractive force/Heating surface
- 1 : 14.51
- Grate area/Heating surface
- 1 : 55.92
- Firebox/Tube surface
- 1 : 10.61
