At the top the pusher would be taken off, turned around and sent back to the Hinton terminal. In operation, one Allegheny leading and one pushing could move a 140 car loaded coal train up the mountain from the Hinton terminal. The tender had a six-wheel leading truck, but an eight-wheel trailing truck was needed to carry the weight in the rear. In order to keep the overall length of the locomotive and tender within the limit that existing turntables could handle it was necessary to make the rear section of the tender higher, thus causing more weight to be at the rear than the front. The tenders for these new locomotives were of the largest type used on the C&O, with a 25,000 gallon water tank and a 25 ton coal bunker. An article by King in Trains in the early 2000s stated that the C&O Alleghenies cost around $270,000.00 each. The C&O selected the name Allegheny for the mountain range that this new locomotive would do its work. With a new wheel arrangement came a new name. They were designated Class H-8 and assigned road numbers 1600 through 1609. The C&O agreed and placed an order for ten of these 2-6-6-6 locomotives and Lima delivered them in December, 1941.
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With four 22.5 diameter x 33 stroke cylinders, a 260 psi boiler pressure and the 67 diameter drivers it could exert 110,200 pounds of tractive effort. This gave the design a wheel arrangement of 2-6-6-6. The large fire box was placed behind the drivers and required a six-wheel trailing truck to support it. This design was a six-coupled, single-expansion articulated with 67 diameter drivers for speed, a 9 x 15 firebox with a very large boiler for steaming and 778,000 pounds of locomotive weight to assure tractive effort. On the brink of ordering more 2-10-4s the C&O was approached by the Lima Locomotive Company with a new and more powerful locomotive design. Its 2-6-6-2s were getting old and the 2-8-8-2s, delivered in the 1920s, (which used simple expansion because of tight tunnel clearances) were not up to the task. 577% grade to the 2,072 foot summit of an Allegheny mountain and then a descent down a 1.14% grade to Clifton Forge. The Class T-1 Texas type 2-10-4s also arrived in the early 1930s and seemed to be the choice for hauling its coal trains over the 80 miles of track from Hinton, WV east to Clifton Forge, VA. In the 1930s, the C&O improved its railroad by boring new tunnels and enlarging others. Read on for more information on the C&O 2-6-6-6 H8 Allegheny: To find and place your new engine in Quick Drive or Surveyor, click on the Trains tab and search for C&O 2-6-6-6 H8. The journey is not a short one so get ready to take the challenge of hauling your freight from New River Mining all the way up to Hinton! They are giving you control over this big boy and you will be making a large coal run. In this session you will experience the power of the C&O 2-6-6-6 H8 Allegheny. What was the heaviest steam locomotive ever built? The Big Boy?. What was the most powerful steam locomotive ever built? The Big Boy? About This Content This package requires the C&O Hinton Division route located in the link directly below.