Chesapeake and Ohio 2755

Preserved American 2-8-4 locomotive (C&O K-4 class)

Chesapeake & Ohio 2755

| Type and origin

Power type| Steam
Builder| Lima Locomotive Works
Order number| 1198
Serial number| 9262
Build date| January 1947
| Specifications

Configuration:
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• Whyte| 2-8-4
Gauge| 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Driver dia.| 69 in (1,753 mm)
Length| 105.2 ft (32.1 m)
Adhesive weight| 292,000 lb (132.4 tonnes)
Loco weight| 460,000 lb (208.7 tonnes)
Tender weight| 388,000 lb (176.0 tonnes)
Total weight| 848,000 lb (384.6 tonnes)
Tender type| 21-RG
Fuel type| Coal
Fuel capacity| 30 short tons (27.2 t)
Water cap.| 21,000 US gal (79,500 L)
Firebox:| ​
• Grate area| 90 sq ft (8.4 m2)
Boiler pressure| 245 psi (1.69 MPa)
Feedwater heater| Worthington Type 5½ SSA
Heating surface| 4,714 sq ft (437.9 m2)
Superheater| Elesco Type E
Cylinders| Two, outside
Cylinder size| 26 in × 34 in (660 mm × 864 mm)
Valve gear| Baker
| Performance figures

Tractive effort| 69,368 lbf (308.56 kN)
Factor of adh.| 4.23
| Career

Operators| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Class| K-4
Number in class| 56 of 90
Numbers| 2755
Retired| 1956
Current owner| West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
Disposition| On static display

Chesapeake and Ohio 2755 Steam Locomotive

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Nearest city| Henlawson, West Virginia
Coordinates| 37°53′34″N 82°0′34″W﻿ / ﻿37.89278°N 82.00944°W﻿ / 37.89278; -82.00944
Area| 0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built| 1947
Architect| Lima Locomotive Works
Architectural style| K-4 Class Locomotive
NRHP reference No.| 06000900[1]
Added to NRHP| September 28, 2006

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2755 is a preserved class "K-4" 2-8-4 "Kanawha" "(Berkshire type steam locomotive built in 1947 by the Lima Locomotive Works for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) It is the 56th of ninety built by ALCO (which built seventy) and Lima (which built the remaining twenty, including 2755) between 1943 and 1947.

A Berkshire type was the first of the Lima Super Power locomotives in 1925 and these followed in that tradition, with all the latest equipment -- Schmidt superheater, Elesco feedwater heater, booster on the trailing truck, roller bearings, and so forth. They carried Baker valve gear, whereas the C&O preferred to the simpler and much more widely used Walschaerts valve gear.

It spent its nine-year working life hauling coal on the various mine branches out of Logan, West Virginia, usually to the Ohio River at Russell, Kentucky. Its last known run was from Handley, West Virginia, to Russell on January 18, 1956.

After refurbishing at the Huntington, West Virginia, shops in the fall of 1960, it was delivered to its present location in Chief Logan State Park in March 1961. It was seriously vandalized in the late 1970s or early 1980s, with the glass broken and gauges stolen or destroyed. It has been repaired and fenced for protection. The Island Creek Model Railroad Club acts as curators.

The locomotive was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 2006 as Chesapeake and Ohio 2755 Steam Locomotive.[1][2]

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1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. ^ Lambert, Thomas F. (December 16, 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Chesapeake and Ohio 2755 Steam Locomotive" (PDF). West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. National Park Service. Retrieved 4 October 2024.

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