Seaboard Air Line 318 Multi-Cache
David: Congrats to TideintheVille for the FTF. Both stages have been picked up.
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In 1900, the Seaboard Air Line Railway was incorporated and provided service from Richmond, VA to Tampa, FL. In 1904, Seaboard subsidiary Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway, purchased the previous year, completed construction and extended the Atlanta route to Birmingham, Alabama, the largest center of iron and steel production in the South, and a valuable endpoint for the Seaboard which had grown to a 2600 mile system. In 1926, an extension from the main line at Coleman, Florida, to West Palm Beach and Miami was completed.
The first 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotives on the Seaboard Air Lines arrived in 1914. There were nineteen delivered from the American Locomotive Company which were designated as Class Q and assigned road numbers 300 through 318. These locomotives had 63" drivers, 27" x 30" cylinders, a 185 psi boiler pressure and they exerted 54,588 pounds of tractive effort and each weighed 282,000 pounds. The firebox was 247 square feet, the evaporative heating surface was 3,537 square feet and with the superheater the combined heating surface was 4,295 square feet. The Class Q locomotives were hand-fired and were delivered with Vanderbilt tenders.
There are no surviving Seaboard Air Line 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotives. All were scrapped by 1952.
Even though the Seaboard never operated over trackage in Middle Tennessee, look around for the tie-in. You're searching for a 2 stage multi, hopefully deserving of its rating.
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