Lionel 6-11321
C&O 2-6-6-2 MALLET
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| C&O's No. 1309 "Mallet" is an ironic design. Manufactured in 1949, this last domestic steam locomotive built by the famed Baldwin Works, is an odd throwback to a design of 39 years earlier. It also is one of the last surviving "Mallet" compounds, a two-in-one steam design widely used in heavy hauling over the first half of the 20th century. This locomotive is, in effect, two engines under one boiler. In addition, it used the s team twice -- first in the rear set of high- pressure cylinders, then in the low-pressure front pair. Plodding but powerful, the "Mallets" were most at home slogging over mountain grades with long coal drags strung out behind them. C&O first used this design in 1910 and found it so w ell suited that the 2-6-6-2s worked in the coal regions for almost 50 years. When it needed some replacements after World War II, the railroad merely ordered an improved version of the original design. |
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