Source: Logging Railroads of Alabama. - Photo: Ed Bond collection.
Vertical boiler - 8 ton - 8 fixed position drivers with center 2 "blind" - 2 vertical cylinders.
Image and data courtesy of John Taubeneck
Owner : Pacific Face Brick Company ~ Newberg, Oregon
The sprocket and chain driven locomotive is believed to have been converted
from a steam tractor.
The photo is from the City of Salem, Oregon,
Historic Photograph Collections ~ ID = 4622
Owner : Pardee Lumber Co. ~ Pardee Station, Pennsylvania
The spur gear driven locomotive is believed to have been converted
from a steam tractor.
The photo is from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania ~ Benjamin F.
G. Kline, Jr. Collection ~ Negative #K2585
Owner : Youngstown Iron & Steel Co. #3 (YIS) ~ Youngstown, Ohio.
C/N ???? ~ built ???? ~ ??" gauge ~ ???? cylinders ~ ? tons
The locomotive is estimated to have weighed 3-5 tons. YIS had at least one other Porter non-geared locomotive. It's gauge was 56½".
The photo is from the Rick Rowlands Collection
Data from Lawrence Hargis' Porter Steam Locomotive Roster.
Owner : Venezuela Sugar Co. #11 ~ Maracaibo, Venezuela.
C/N 5697 ~ built 08/1915 ~ 36" gauge ~ 4½" x 6½" cylinders ~ 5 tons
Data from Lawrence Hargis' Porter Steam Locomotive Roster.
Owner : A. Guthrie & Co. #1 ~ Saint Paul, Minnesota.
C/N 5676 ~ built 08/1915 ~ 56½" gauge ~ 4" x 5" cylinders ~ 3 tons
The company, a general contractor, owned an additional Porter geared locomotive with the C/N 5735. Data from Lawrence Hargis' Porter Steam Locomotive Roster.
Owner : Unknown
This locomotive was promoted as a "Contractors Oil Locomotive".
Image from "Engineering and Contracting - Volume 43 - January-June 1915"
Carpenter
Steel Company
(owner) #20 - Reading, Pennsylvania
C/N
6020 - built 06/1917 - 24" gauge - 4½" x 6½"
cylinders - 6½ tons - 0-4-0T
wheel arrangement
Lower image is close-up of the gearbox. Note the resemblance to the Bell
engine and gearbox.
Image and data from "Porter
Steam Locomotives Light and Heavy".
U. S. Navy
(owner) - Brooklyn, New York
C/N 7208 - built 07/1934 - Std gauge - 16" x 16" cylinders - 50 tons - 0-4-0
wheel arrangement - "fireless" locomotive
Data from Lawrence Hargis'
Porter
Steam Locomotive Roster.
The images were published in the article:
"The Navy's Fireless Steam Locomotive" appearing in the
January-February, 1935 edition of The Military Engineer
Virginia Electric & Power Co.
(owner) - Richmond, Virginia
C/N 7228 - built 08/1936 - Std gauge - 15" x 14" cylinders - 44 tons - 0-4-0
wheel arrangement - "fireless" locomotive
Data from Lawrence Hargis'
Porter
Steam Locomotive Roster.
Image
from "Porter Steam Locomotives - Catalog 1943" courtesy of
George
Elwood
Mead Corporation #3 (owner) - Lumberton,
North Carolina
C/N 7239 - built 02/1937 - Std gauge - 18 ½" x 16" cylinders - 70 tons - 0-4-0
wheel Arrangement - "fireless" locomotive.
Data from Lawrence Hargis'
Porter
Steam Locomotive Roster..
Survives as
Carolina Power & Light
#3 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum
Image from "Porter Steam Locomotives - Catalog 1943" courtesy of
George
Elwood
U. S. Navy
(owner) - Brooklyn, New York
c/n 7208 - built 07/1934 - Std gauge - 16" x 16" cylinders - 50 tons - 0-4-0
wheel arrangement - "fireless" locomotive
Data from Lawrence Hargis'
Porter
Steam Locomotive Roster.
The images were published in the article:
"The Navy's Fireless Steam Locomotive" appearing in the
January-February, 1935 edition of The Military Engineer
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.
| boiler diameter: 3 feet 4 inches | boiler length: 10 feet 6 inches |
| boiler pressure: 125 psi | cylinders: 9 inch diameter & 10 inch stroke |
| wheels: 3 feet in diameter | weight: 11 tons |
| spur gear ratio: 4 to 1 |
Emile Stehelin (owner) - a French migrant lumberman who operated a 15 mile long "pole" railroad to haul logs out of his timberland.
| Photo & data source: | "Unusual Locomotives" by
Ernest F. Carter / Frederick Muller Ltd, London 1960 p. 181 Provided courtesy of Christian Halpaap of Hohenhameln-Bruendeln, Germany |
The locomotive in the image is the same as in the picture in the entry just below. The image being without the fuel tender.
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.
**
The locomotive in the photo is the same as in the image in the entry
just above. The image being without the fuel tender.
The photo is hosted by Flickr.com user
Colin Churcher
Madera Sugar Pine Co. #1 (owner) - 36" gauge -
7 tons - Madera, California - locomotive named "Betsy".
Purchased from Madera Flume and Trading Company in 1899. Scrapped in 1937.
Source: "Thunder in the Mountains". Drawing: Donald C. DeVere
Owner : Post & Henderson Company (PHC) ~ Jayville, New York
The locomotive was essentially a two steam
piston, chain and sprocket geared "pole road" unit with concave, double
flanged drivers approximately one foot between the flanges. At this
time, the first article below provides the only known physical details about
the locomotive. It discusses only the creation of a contract for the
building of such a locomotive. Article #2 notes the locomotive was
built and used by PHC.
#1 -
The following is a transcription of an article that appeared on the front page of
the July
23, 1891 edition of "The Odensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Democrat"
published in Odensburg, New York":
"Ryther & Pringle, iron founders and machinists,
of Carthage, have taken the contract for making a unique specimen of
mechanism and the perfection of the thing when completed will be watched
with interest by mechanics. At present Post & Henderson, who conduct a large
sawmill at Jayville, are compelled to draw their logs a long distance over
rough roads in the woods with horses. This method, therefore, is necessarily
slow and extremely expensive. To lessen this as much as possible Ryther &
Pringle have taken the contract to make them a railroad train that they can
run through the woods. They will first make two ordinary railroad trucks the
wheels of which will be about one foot wide and will be inverted in the
center, making a flange on both sides; the gear will be placed on each of
these axles. A double engine will be placed on top of these and a sprocket
chain will connect the engine with the drivers by the axle gear, thus
affording power of locomotion. The wheels for the cars will be made just the
same and when the train is completed for operation small logs will be laid
on the ground at a certain distance apart and on these the train will run.
This ensures a good road bed, therefore at any place, and can readily be
taken up, loaded on the cars and transported to another place for use, thus
making a portable railroad. Ryther & Pringle calculate that this train when
completed will draw a heavy load of logs at least five miles per hour. The
plan is a very novel one and when it is completed, will be a great saving to
Post & Henderson."
We thank John Taubeneck of Seattle, Washington for notifying us of
the existence of the article and it's transcription.
#2 - This text gives credence to the locomotive's creation and use by PHC. It appeared on page 50 of the book "Around Cranberry Lake".