Detailed
mechanical and operational information about the C&O’s classic and
fabulously successful 30 T-1 class 2-10-4 Texas type steam locomotives
that were used most of their lives taking 14,000-ton coal trains from
Russell, Ky. to Columbus and Toledo.
These
often have been called the “quintessential Super Power engines.” They
incorporated all the best principals that Lima Locomotive Works conjured
up to create the Super Power steam locomotive as a type. The T-1s were
so highly successful that C&O generally bought only Super Power
types thereafter. They were so successful on C&O that when
Pennsylvania Railroad needed a new heavy engine class during WWII, it
just copied the C&O 2-10-4s (that became the PRR J1 class). During
1949-1953 a number of them were used on heavy coal trains between
Richmond and Newport News, Va., just before their retirement.
Included
are mechanical and roster data, dynamometer car test report results,
diagrams, mechanical drawings, maps, and much historical data not only
about the mechanical design, but the operational history from 1930 until
the last were retired in 1953.
