Class C Goods Engine by Rockyrailroad578 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

In the Southern Crab Islands, broad-gauge trains reign supreme. Running along the shoreline and past farms, the broad gauge system carries mostly passengers year round. Agricultural buisness at the end of summer is very big due to the harvest, so the railway is in extremely high demand, being the quickest way to get the goods to market around the island. During winter mainly, stove coal traffic is also very high, being taken from standard gauge trains in the north to the bigger broad gauge. For these jobs, the class C 0-6-0 was devised.

These giant 0-6-0s are very strong goods engines consisting of both crops as well as the coal drags. These inside cylinder 0-6-0s can be seen everywhere on the broad gauge network pulling any type of slow goods trains, as well as occasionally assisting with heavy tourist passenger trains, particularly in the case of the "Port Eastern Express", where it is quite common to see carriages added while the passengers are still on the platform. 35 of these locomotives were made for the goods traffic, all made by the Port Eastern Works to the 7' gauge. They have large boilers with a working pressure of 200 psi to run two very large cylinders between the frames. These engines are some of the slowest mainline broad gauge engines, topping out at just under 60 miles per hour (considering that the Duke-class 4-4-0s can reach 90 and the Iron Maiden 4-2-2 easily cracking 100), which is quite adequate for the heavier, less tightly scheduled trains they pull.

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