INDIANA HARBOR BELT STEAM LOCOMOTIVES BUILT SINCE 1900



   0-6-0 Switchers   
Class Number Qty Builder Built Boiler
Pressure
Cylinders Tractive
Effort
Drivers Retired/Sold Notes
B-589, 10 2Schenectady1900 17019x2422800  511929, 1923Built as 2-6-0s; rebuilt as 0-6-0s in 1911
B-58a111-113, 118,
119, 130-132
 8Schenectady1903 17019x24 22800 511920-24Built as 2-6-0s; rebuilt as 0-6-0s in 1917
B-58b133-135 3Schenectady1905 18021x2822800  511919-1924 
B-10a30-3910Brooks1905 18021x2833140  571928-40From MC to CI&S, then to IHB in 1916
B-10c15-2915Cooke1906 18021x2832570  571927-36From NYC in 1916
B-10p40-42 3Brooks1910 18021x2832570  581949-50 
B-11j43-50 8Manchester1913 18021x2832510  581949-50 

   2-6-0 Moguls   
ClassNumberQtyBuilderBuiltBoiler
Pressure
Cylinders Tractive
Effort
DriversRetired/SoldNotes
E-4913-14 2Schenectady1901 20020x2931200  631924 
E-49a11-12 2Schenectady1903 20020x2931200  631925 

   0-8-0 Switchers   
ClassNumberQtyBuilderBuiltBoiler
Pressure
Cylinders Tractive
Effort
DriversRetired/SoldNotes
U-1a150-156 7Schenectady1913 20525x3056330  581950 
U-1e157-16610Schenectady1916 20525x3056330  581950 
U-2i167-171 5Lima1918 20023.5x3045700  581950-51 
U-3a300-31920Baldwin1919 18025x2851490  521950-51USRA design
U-3b320-32910Lima1921 18025x2851490  521950-51USRA design
U-3e330-334 5Lima1924 20025x2857210  521950-51USRA design
U-3g335-339 5Lima1925 20025x2857210  521950-51USRA design
U-4a100-102 3Brooks1927 20023.5x32
23.5x28
74400
+12000B
 581951Three cylinders; tender booster

   2-8-2 Mikados   
ClassNumberQtyBuilderBuiltBoiler
Pressure
Cylinders Tractive
Effort
DriversRetired/SoldNotes
H-5r250-26415Schenectady1918 20025x3253970  631950250-54 may have had boosters. To NYC
H-6a400-423*24Lima1919 20026x3054720  63By 1923To SLSF and PM
H-5u400-40910Schenectady1923 20525x3255300  631950-51To NYC
H-5u410-41910Lima1923 20525x3255300  631950-51To NYC
H-5v420-424 5Lima1924 20525x3255300  631950-51May have had tender boosters. To NYC

* The H-6a units were sold before acquisition of the H-5u and H-5v engines.

The most recent IHB renumbering used in all cases except possibly the B-58 units.

Driver diameter in inches, tractive effort in footpounds, cylinder bore and stroke in inches,
boiler pressure in pounds/sq. inch

Abbreviations:
MC: Michigan Central
CI&S: Chicago, Indiana & Southern
NYC: New York Central System
SLSF: St.Louis and San Francisco
PM: Pere Marquette

Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to Ed Scarlett, who provided most of the information.
Other rosters consulted:
Bill Jernstrom's in Alvin Staufer's Steam Power of the New York Central, vol. I
W.D. Edson and Edward L. May roster from George Drury's Guide to North American Steam Locomotives
Data chart from Arnold Haas' Memories of New York Central Steam
A roster provided by Bob Zwiers
A notebook from a retired IHB employee.

 
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