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Specifications
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	2-10-2
• UIC	1'E1'h3G
Gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Wheelbase
• Engine	34.58 ft (10.54 m)
• Drivers	18.33 ft (5.59 m)
Length	80 ft (24 m) with tender
Adhesive weight	148,500 lb (67,400 kg)
Loco weight	188,000 lb (85,000 kg)
Tender weight	155,000 lb (70,000 kg)
Total weight	343,000 lb (156,000 kg)
Tender type	Four-axle tender
Fuel type	Oil, coal
Fuel capacity	6,000 US gal (23,000 L) oil or; 5.5 t (12,000 lb) coal; 18,000 lb (8,200 kg)
Water cap.	5,000 US gal (19,000 L)
Firebox:
• Type	Standard fire-tube firebox
• Grate area	35 sq ft (3.3 m2)
Boiler pressure	180 psi (1,200 kPa)
Heating surface:
• Firebox	176 sq ft (16.4 m2)
• Tubes	416 sq ft (38.6 m2)
• Flues	498 sq ft (46.3 m2)
• Tubes and flues	914 sq ft (84.9 m2)
• Total surface
Superheater:;
• Type	Fire-tube
• Heating area	493 sq ft (45.8 m2)
Cylinders	3
Cylinder size	130.9 cu ft (3.71 m3)
Valve gear	Walschaerts
Valve type	Piston valves
Couplers	Buffers and chain with Link and pin couplers (1922–45); Link and pin with Transitional Janney coupler

Type and origin
Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	American Locomotive Company; H.K. Porter, Inc.
Builder	American Locomotive Company; (Brooks Plant)
Order number	62739-48
Build date	1921-22
Total produced	10

Manila Railroad 200 class
Manila Railroad 200 class
	A 200 class in Lucena in 1922. It was then the terminus of the South Main Line until the extension to Albay was opened in 1938.
Power type
Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	American Locomotive Company; H.K. Porter, Inc.
Builder	American Locomotive Company; (Brooks Plant)
Order number	62739-48
Build date	1921-22
Total produced	10
Configuration:;
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	2-10-2
• UIC	1'E1'h3G
Gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Wheelbase
• Engine	34.58 ft (10.54 m)
• Drivers	18.33 ft (5.59 m)
Length	80 ft (24 m) with tender
Adhesive weight	148,500 lb (67,400 kg)
Loco weight	188,000 lb (85,000 kg)
Tender weight	155,000 lb (70,000 kg)
Total weight	343,000 lb (156,000 kg)
Tender type	Four-axle tender
Fuel type	Oil, coal
Fuel capacity	6,000 US gal (23,000 L) oil or; 5.5 t (12,000 lb) coal; 18,000 lb (8,200 kg)
Water cap.	5,000 US gal (19,000 L)
Firebox:
• Type	Standard fire-tube firebox
• Grate area	35 sq ft (3.3 m2)
Boiler pressure	180 psi (1,200 kPa)
Heating surface:
• Firebox	176 sq ft (16.4 m2)
• Tubes	416 sq ft (38.6 m2)
• Flues	498 sq ft (46.3 m2)
• Tubes and flues	914 sq ft (84.9 m2)
• Total surface
Superheater:;
• Type	Fire-tube
• Heating area	493 sq ft (45.8 m2)
Cylinders	3
Cylinder size	130.9 cu ft (3.71 m3)
Valve gear	Walschaerts
Valve type	Piston valves
Couplers	Buffers and chain with Link and pin couplers (1922–45); Link and pin with Transitional Janney coupler
Maximum speed
Performance figures
Maximum speed	53 mph (85 km/h)
Power output	1,944 hp (1,450 kW)
Tractive effort	53,550 lbf (238.2 kN)
Factor of adh.	2.77
Operators
Career
Operators	Manila Railroad Company
Number in class	10
Numbers	201-210
Nicknames	Santa Fes
Locale	South Main Line, Luzon
Delivered	1921-22
First run	1922
Withdrawn	c. 1960
Preserved	0
Scrapped	1945, c. 1957–1970s
Disposition	Scrapped
	References:

The Manila Railroad 200 class were 2-10-2 Santa Fe steam locomotives operated by the Manila Railroad Company (MRR), predecessor of the Philippine National Railways.^[1] They were built alongside the 4-8-2 Mountain-type 170 class by the American Locomotive Company at its Brooks facility between 1921 and 1922. During its service at the MRR, it carried heavy freight trains on the South Main Line between Manila and the Bicol Region.^[4]

Four units managed to survive World War II. These locomotives were ultimately scrapped without a single unit preserved like all of the Manila Railroad's tender locomotives.^[5]

Background

The Manila Railway Company (MRC) purchased and operated tank locomotives for its fleet until 1906, when they purchased five Manila Railway 100 class 4-4-2 locomotives for the Baguio Special, an express train bound for Baguio via Dagupan station. After the company was renamed into the Manila Railroad in 1909, the first American-built locomotives were purchased from the American Locomotive Company (Alco) and arrived in 1912. Ten of these were the 110 class 4-6-0 and another ten were 130 class 2-8-0 locomotives.^[6]

By 1917, the Insular Government took over the remaining Manila Railway operations in Manila and merged it into the Manila Railroad.^[7] The success of Manila Railroad 45 class in the early 1920s the urged the government to purchase newer and larger locomotives based around H.K. Porter, Inc.'s acclaimed designs. These would replace its aging fleet of mostly tank locomotives, as well as the Manila Railroad 160 class Meyer locomotives, the latter were seen as slow, inefficient, and controversial during their time.^[8]

Twenty new locomotives were purchased from Alco, ten being a 2-10-2 Santa Fe-type heavy freight locomotives and another ten being a 4-8-2 Mountain type for passenger use. The Santa Fe's were numbered the 200 class to the while the Mountain types were numbered the 170 class. While the first 20 Alco locomotives were built in the former Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works facility in New Jersey, these were built in the former Brooks Locomotive Works facility in Buffalo, New York. The transfer of facilities was made because the Brooks plant was more capable of building larger locomotives.^[2]

Design

The 200 class was the largest and heaviest locomotive class that entered Philippine service. With a four-axle tender, a 200 class was 80 ft (24 m) long and weighed 343,500 pounds (155,800 kg; 155.8 t).^[4] Each locomotive was 50 percent heavier and twice longer than the 2-6-0+0-6-2 Kitson Meyer locomotives it replaced. Despite being its flagship class, the 200 class was still one of the smallest tender locomotives of this wheel arrangement. Santa Fes in other national railroads such as the USRA Light Santa Fe easily weighed above 100 metric tons (220,000 lb) without a tender and would rather not fit on the turntables built by the Manila Railroad.

According to Alco, it was built with almost the same exact specifications as the Mountain-type 170 class, except it had a different weight distribution and driver diameter, and was also heavier by 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg; 2.3 t). It also had the biggest cylinders of any non-articulated locomotive of the era that ran on narrow-gauge lines. It was not until 1927 when the so-called Henschel Giants of the South African Railways featured a wider cylinder. However, it had relatively small boilers and grates compared to the other Santa Fes, which would then contribute to its smaller size and weight. The locomotives were fitted with a Walschaerts valve gear similar to all steam locomotives during this era.^[2]

The overall design also heavily resembles the Manila Railroad 45 class locomotives designed by Porter, particularly the second batch numbered 55–64 introduced a year before owing to that design's enjoyed popularity among MRR's railroad engineers and maintenance crew.

Service

These locomotives were used on freight services on the South Main Line. Initially the line ended near Lucena, Quezon. Due to the size of the locomotives, new 80 ft (24 m) railway turntables were constructed to accommodate them.^[4] The locomotives would see extended freight service to Bicol with the opening of the Lucena–Port Ragay section in 1938. In 1942, the Japanese government took control of the operations of the Manila Railroad Company and the 200 class was included in the Japanese operations of the MRR.^[9]

Four units managed to survive after World War II, Nos. 205, 206, 208 and 209, all of which were still in active service by 1952. In comparison, the 170 class survived with three units after the war.^[10] Even after the dieselization efforts of the Manila Railroad was initiated in 1956, the locomotives continued its duties well into the 1960s. No. 206 was stored in San Fernando railyard by c. 1965 and was eventually scrapped there in the decades after. The class is now considered extinct.^[11]

Accidents

A rare photograph emerged in 2017 showing two 200 class locomotives colliding during the height of World War II. The two engines appeared to have been abandoned by 1946 and would be scrapped later on.^[12]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d On rebuilt units fitted with larger tenders from the 100 class after 1949.

References

^ ^a ^b Snowden Bell, J. (March 1922). "New Mountain Type and Santa Fe Type Locomotives for the Manila Railroad". Railway and Locomotive Engineering. New York City. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Llanso, Steve. "Manila Railroad 2-10-2 Locomotives in Philippines". Sweat House Media. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
^ "Locomotive Engineers Journal". 90. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. 1956. Retrieved February 9, 2021. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c Paez, Jose (December 31, 1922). "1923 Report of the General Manager". Reports of the General Manager, Manila Railroad Company.
^ "Manila RR 'Santa Fe' Locomotive 2-10-2 - 1922". Flickr. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
^ Smith, Jonathan (2007). "Manila RR steam locomotives". Iowa State University. Retrieved April 12, 2021.
^ "Chapter I: Present Conditions". Report of Survey of the Manila Railroad Company and the Preliminary Survey of Railroads for Mindanao (Report). Chicago: De Leuw, Cather & Company. 1951. pp. 1–12.
^ "EN BANC - G.R. No. L-10624 - March 24, 1916 THE MANILA RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. THE INSULAR COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Defendant-Appellant". www.chanrobles.com. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
^ "1942 0619 Affairs Concerning Railway Battalion of the Imperial Japanese Forces". Flickr. January 8, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
^ Motive Power and Rolling Stock. Report of Survey of the Manila Railroad Company and the Preliminary Survey of Railroads for Mindanao (Report). De Leuw, Cather and Company; Manila Railroad Company. July 1952. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
^ San Fernando Locomotive Shed (circa 1960). 1960. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
^ Salazar, Rabin (1946). 14474. Philippine Train Enthusiasts and Railfans Club. Retrieved May 25, 2022.