BEDT #7 - Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal - Baldwin 17890

BEDT #7 - Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal - Baldwin 17890 - built: September 1900

LOWELL M. PALMER - "Chester"
BROOKLYN EASTERN DISTRICT TERMINAL - # 7

Builder & Location:	Baldwin Locomotive Works (Philadelphia, PA)
Construction Number:	17890
Build Date:	June 1900

Baldwin Locomotive class 6-32-D 145 - "Six Coupled Tank Locomotive"

Wheel Arrangement:	0-6-0T	Water Tank Capacity:	1450 gal	Firebox Area	129 sq. ft.
Cylinders:	19"d x 24"s	Boiler Capacity:	1200 gal	Firebox Dim.	93 3/16" x 33 3/8"
Boiler Pressure:	180 psi	Boiler Dia.	58"	Firebox Depth	58" f, 57" r
Weight:	130,000 lbs	Coal Capacity:	1300 lbs	Tubes Dia.	1 3/4"
Length:	29' 0"	Fuel Oil Capacity (after conv)	500 gal	Tube Length	9' 4 1/2"
Height:		Tractive Effort:	28,800 lbs	# of Tubes	220
Wheel Diameter:	46"	Factor of Adhesion:		Tube Area	936 sq. ft.
Wheelbase:	8' 0"	Sharpest curve, advised:	80'	Grate Area	21.6 sq ft
Valve Type:	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

Baldwin Locomotive Works - Specification Sheets for #7 and #8
courtesy of Southern Methodist University, Everett DeGolyer Digitial Archives, Dallas, TX
authors collection

added 10 April 2019

Baldwin Locomotive Works - Builders Photo - September 1900
(note small coal bunker on rear)
photo courtesy of Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania archives

unknown date - Pidgeon Street
(note tall style oil tank on rear)
SMU - E. L. DeGolyer Library archives
authors collection

April 30, 1933
George Votava photo
D. Keller archives
authors collection

March or April 2, 1934 - Pidgeon Street
(I have seen this exact photo with two different dates: March 1934 and April 2, 1934)
unknown photographer
added 16 January 2009

September 28, 1934 - Pidgeon Street
William J. Rugen photo
D. Keller archives
authors collection
(a copy also resides in Queens Public Library Digital Archives)
reuploaded 21 May 2019

unknown date
unknown photographer
authors collection
01 April 2011

January 1957 - North 9th Street
H. Fagerberg photo
authors collection

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