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Deerfield and Roundabout Railway
An educational demonstration steam powered 7 and 1/2 inch gauge railway operated by the
Lake Forest Live Steamers Railway Museum Incorporated.

STEAM LOCOMOTIVES: 2-4-4 Forney Type
IC 201 at Chicago Railroad Fair b

Deerfield & Roundabout 2-4-4 Forney Type Locomotive, for suburban passenger service.
Buker Locomotive Works, Chicago, Builders No. 5, 1989
Patterned after Illinois Central Railroad, Road No. 201, circa 1880.
Construction completed 1989 by Edward "Bud" Buker.
  Image above of actual I.C. Eng. No. 201 on operational display at Chicago Railroad Fair of 1948-1949.
Image to be replaced by image of Buker model in the future.

Rated tractive force (K=0.85)...................... 146 lb.
Rated tractive force divided by weight on drivers..... TBD
Cylinders, diameter and stroke............... 2 in. x 3 in.
Drivers, diameter.................................... 7 in.
Weight on drivers.................................. TBD lb.
Weight on front truck.............................. TBD lb.
Weight on trailing truck........................... TBD lb.
Total weight of engine............................. TBD lb.
Driving wheel base.................................. 12 in.
Length over draft faces of couplers............ 5 ft. 8 in.
Fuel............................................ Soft coal

Firebox, length and width................ 7 1/2 in. x 9 in.
Grate area.................................... 0.47 sq. ft.
Diameter of boiler, outside...................... 7 1/2 in.
Steam pressure..................................... 100 lb.
Track gauge, minimum on tangent unguarded track.. 7 1/2 in.
Outside gauge of flanges........................ 7 7/16 in.
Reverser...................... Manual latch lever quadrant
Valves............. Outside admission unbalanced "D" slide
Valve & cylinder lubricator.................... Mechanical
Engine brakes....................................... Steam

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