Dayton - Goose Creek Railroad 4-4-0
The 4-4-0 type locomotive for the Dayton-Goose Creek
Railway is of interest as representing a type formerly built in large
numbers for which there is now only occasional demand. This railway
serves the Goose Creek oil fields of Texas and operates about 25 miles
of line. The grades are generally light and the track is laid with 60
pound rails. An American
type locomotive designed and equipped in accordance with modern
practice and having wheel loads suited to the track is well qualified
to meet the traffic requirements of a line like this one. This
locomotive weighs 89,000 and has 15 in by 24 in cylinders and boiler
pressure of 180 pounds. Locomotives of this same weight and type
commonly used in heavy passenger 35 or 40 years ago, but they had 17 or
18 in in diameter, and carried steam pressure of 130 to 140 pounds.
This combination resulted in approximately the same tractive force and
ratio of adhesion as are found in the Dayton-Goose Creek locomotive.
from a 1922 magazine, in the
public domain
