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BEDT #6 - Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal - Baldwin 14743 - built: March 1896

PALMER'S DOCK - "Ethel"
BROOKLYN EASTERN DISTRICT TERMINAL - #6

Builder & Location: Baldwin Locomotive Works (Philadelphia, PA)
Construction Number: 14743
Build Date: March 1896 


Baldwin Locomotive class 4-28-C-22 - "Four Coupled Tank Locomotive"


Wheel Arrangement:
0-4-0T
Water Tank Capacity:
1450 gal
Firebox Area
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Cylinders: 19"d x 24"s Boiler Capacity: 1250 gal Firebox Dim. 87 7/16" x 33 3/8"
Boiler Pressure: 160 psi Boiler Dia. 58" Firebox Depth 49" f,  48" r
Weight: 75,000 lbs Coal Capacity: 1300 lbs Tubes Dia. 1 3/4"
Length: 29' 0" Fuel Oil Capacity (after conv) 500 gal Tube Length 9' 1 1/2"
Height: Tractive Effort: 28,800 lbs # of Tubes 190
Wheel Diameter: 46" Factor of Adhesion: Tube Area 936 sq. ft.
Wheelbase: 7' 6"  Sharpest curve, advised: 90' Grate Area 21.6 sq ft
Valve Type:

Richardson Balanced Slide

 Sharpest curve, practicable: Staying Crown Bar
Lightest rail usage, advised:

Owner History: Lowell M. Palmer
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
Present Location: retired between 1934 - 1936; scrapped ?
Notes:
 built as round saddletank, closed cab (see steam loco notes)
converted to square sided saddletank by BEDT

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Baldwin Locomotive Works - Specification Sheets for #6
courtesy of Southern Methodist University, Everett DeGolyer Digitial Archives, Dallas, TX
 authors collection
added 10 April 2019
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Sept. 8, 1933
(note #8 being scrapped left background)
George Votava photo
D. Keller collection

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