Bevier & Southern #112 is on display in Bevier, MO

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Bevier & Southern #112, Bevier, MO

This Mogul type (2-6-0) locomotive was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1921 for the Bevier & Southern Railroad in Bevier, MO. and spent its entire forty three year operating life on the B&S.

Weighing 137,000 lbs, 120,000 lbs on its 51” drivers, #112 has a 14’ driver wheelbase and 21’ 11” engine wheelbase. Equipped with Walschaert valve gear, it has 20” x 26” cylinders, a 28.1 sq ft grate, 150 sq ft firebox and total heating surface of 1,735 sq ft. It operated at a boiler pressure of 170 psi delivering 29,467 lbs tractive effort. The tender weighs 122,000 lbs light with a capacity of 6,000 gallons of water and 9 tons of coal.

The Bevier & Southern Railroad started life in 1914, when the Missouri & Louisiana Railroad divided, with the Missouri portion of railroad becoming the B&S. It hauled coal on a 9.18 mile line from Binkley, MO, to a connection with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad at Bevier. The line was abandoned in 1982.

#112 was donated to the City of Bevier, MO, in 1963 having travelled 364,562 miles in service. It is on display on N Macon St.

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