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Oak Grove & Georgetown Railroad #5 (owner &
modifier) - A "radial planetary" gear drive system was installed by the
company's shops on this narrow gauge (3ft) rod locomotive in the early 1920's. The
company, a logging railroad, was located in Georgetown, Alabama. Although it is unknown
how the system worked, it was thought to have functioned as intended. Source: Logging Railroads of Alabama. - Photo: Ed Bond collection. |
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Oxford
Foundry & Machine Co. Ltd. (builder) - Oxford, Nova Scotia,
Canada Vertical boiler - 8 ton - 8 fixed position drivers with center 2 "blind" - 2 vertical cylinders. Image and data courtesy of John Taubeneck |
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Porter, H. K. Company, Inc.
(builder) - Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania - Geared Roster Carpenter
Steel Company
(owner) #20 - Reading, Pennsylvania |
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Porter, H. K. Company, Inc. (builder) - Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania - Geared Roster
U. S. Navy
(owner) - Brooklyn, New York |
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Porter, H. K. Company, Inc. (builder) - Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania - Geared Roster Virginia Electric & Power Co.
(owner) - Richmond, Virginia |
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Porter, H. K. Company, Inc.
(builder) - Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania - Geared Roster
Mead Corporation #3 (owner) - Lumberton,
North Carolina |
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Robb Engineering Company
(builder & designer) - Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada Owner : Weymouth & New France Railway - New France, Nova Scotia, Canada The boiler was tilted upward to help with water circulation and fire draught. Two cylinders were mounted next to the boiler and at a similar upward tilted angle. They drove disk cranks which were attached to a shaft mounted below and perpendicular to the boiler. "This was spur geared, at a 4 to 1 ratio, with an intermediate shaft carrying chain-sprocket wheels, which drove the four carrying wheels by steel chains." The four wheels were mounted on "sensitive springs". They were concave or double flanged with treads for gripping the logs used for rail ("poles"). It could haul as many as 10 loaded cars. Note the size of the steam dome.
Emile Stehelin (owner) - a French migrant lumberman who operated a 15 mile long "pole" railroad to haul logs out of his timberland.
The locomotive in the image is the same as in the picture in the entry just below. The image being without the fuel tender. |
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Builder: Robb Engineering Company
(builder & designer) - Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada -
delivered September 3, 1897
** Owner : Weymouth & New France Railway - New France, Nova Scotia, Canada
The locomotive, named "Maria Theresa", and the railway were
owned by
Emile Stehelin. In the picture are
the president of Robb Engineering, D. W. Robb (seated at
the throttle), Emile Stehelin (standing just behind Robb), and Emile's son,
Emile Jean, standing in rear.
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Rose & Company (builder - unconfirmed) - San
Francisco, California - prior to 1899
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