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BEDT #9 - Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal - Baldwin 29543 - built: November 1906

HAVEMEYER & ELDER - #9
BROOKLYN EASTERN DISTRICT TERMINAL - # 9

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Builder & Location: Baldwin Locomotive Works (Philadelphia, PA)
Construction Number: 29543
Build Date: November 1906


Baldwin Locomotive class 6-32-D 555 - "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: Grate Area 21.6 sq ft
Valve Type:

Balanced Slide

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

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

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unknown date
SMU E. L. DeGolyer Library archives
authors collection

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October 20, 1934 - Pidgeon Street
W. Lichtenstern photo
D. Keller collection

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October 20, 1934? - Pidgeon Street
(presumably taken at same time as photo above)
unknown photographer
F. Zahn  archives
authors collection

added 12 Nov 2008

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October 21, 1934 - Pidgeon Street
Note date - one day after photos above. NY&QEL&P barricade now missing legs.
William J. Rugen photo
Queens Public Library Digital Archives
color corrected by author

added 21 May 2019
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January 05, 1935
Peter V. Dobbins photo
authors collection

added 14 Mar 2015
this same photo was previuosly shown on this page as a
W. A. Lucas photo

and being located in the SMU E. L. DeGolyer Library archives

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