Thuile | |
Powertype: | Steam |
Designer: | Thuile |
Builder: | Schneider |
Builddate: | 1899 |
Uicclass: | 2'B3' |
Leadingdiameter: | 1.060NaN0 |
Driverdiameter: | 2.50NaN0 |
Trailingdiameter: | 1.060NaN0 |
Wheelbase: | 12.250NaN0 |
Length: | 24.80NaN0 (locomotive and tender) |
Boilerpressure: | 150NaN0 |
Firearea: | 4.680NaN0 |
Totalsurface: | 297.70NaN0 |
Cylindercount: | 2 |
Cylindersize: | 510x |
Locoweight: | 80.6t |
Maxspeed: | 1170NaN0 |
Scrapdate: | 1904 (locomotive), post 1946 (tender) |
The Thuile locomotive was a steam locomotive designed by M. Henri Thuile, of Alexandria, Egypt, and built in 1899.
Thuile proposed a 6-4-8 or 6-4-6 locomotive with 3-metre-diameter (3m (10feet)) driving wheels, but it was not built.[1]
The design was taken up by Schneider, of Le Creusot, who built a 4-4-6 with 2.5-metre-diameter (2.5m (08.2feet)) driving wheels, and a forward cab for the driver. The two-cylinder locomotive had Walschaerts valve gear and a double-lobed boiler of nickel-steel. The locomotive was exhibited at the International Exposition in Paris in 1900, and the trials were undertaken on the Chemin de Fer de l'Etat line between Chartres and Thouars. A speed of 117km/h was attained hauling a load of 186t.[1]
The trials ended when Thuile was killed in June 1900, apparently because he leant too far out of the locomotive and hit a lineside pole[2] or a piece of scaffolding supporting an overbridge.[3] The locomotive was returned to Schneider and was scrapped in 1904. The tender survived until at least 1946, when it was noted at Saint Pierre-des-Corps.[1]