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Minarets & Western No. 102 to 104
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United States | 1923
3 produced
No. 103 in November 1935 at Fresno, California
No. 103 in November 1935 at Fresno, California
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The Sugar Pine Lumber Company had founded the Minarets & Western Railway to operate a main line that connected their saw mill over 53 miles with the network of the Southern Pacific. This railroad and its parent mostly ordered their locomotives from ALCO-Brooks, and also the three Mikados No. 102 to 104 came from this company. They were delivered in 1923 and were considerably heavier than No. 101 that had come two years earlier. They had 52-inch drivers and cylinders of 24.5 by 28 inches. Their tender had a capacity of 10,000 gallons of water and ten tons of coal.

The parent company went bankrupt in 1933 and two years later, all four locomotives of the Minarets & Western were sold to the Southern Pacific. Numbers 102 and 104 were used as switchers and got the numbers 3295 and 3296. The first one was retired in 1953, while the second one had already been sold to Long-Bell Lumber in 1940. 103 had directly been sold again to the Chicago & Illinois Midland and never received a Southern Pacific number. It was scrapped in 1954.

General
Built1923
ManufacturerALCO
Wheel arr.2-8-2 (Mikado) 
Gauge4 ft 8 1/2 in (Standard gauge)
Dimensions and Weights
Wheelbase33 ft 3 in
Rigid wheelbase14 ft 7 in
Total wheelbase67 ft 11 1/2 in
Service weight258,800 lbs
Adhesive weight207,800 lbs
Total weight430,800 lbs
Water capacity10,000 us gal
Fuel capacity20,000 lbs (coal)
Boiler
Grate area63.3 sq ft
Firebox area286 sq ft
Tube heating area3,264 sq ft
Evaporative heating area3,550 sq ft
Superheater area862 sq ft
Total heating area4,412 sq ft
Power Plant
Driver diameter52 in
Boiler pressure200 psi
Expansion typesimple
Cylinderstwo, 24 1/2 x 28 in
Power
Power sourcesteam
Estimated power2,800 hp (2,088 kW)
Starting effort54,946 lbf
Calculated Values
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