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Carpenter Technology industrial railroad equipment 10 years 10 months ago #1365

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Interesting information. Thanks, guys.

Bill, you are correct. Locomotive 20 is a geared locomotive. I checked again with Carpenter, and the builder's plate identifies the builder as H.K. Porter of Pittsburgh, Penna.

After a little more digging, I found out that Kalmbach published a book, "Porter Steam Locomotives Light and Heavy," containing a mostly complete roster of locomotives produced by Porter.

http://www.amazon.com/Porter-Steam-Locomotives-Light-Heavy/dp/0964705036

Sure enough, locomotive 20 was a geared locomotive, built by H.K. Porter in June of 1917:

http://www.gearedsteam.com/other/porter/porter_roster.htm
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Carpenter Technology industrial railroad equipment 10 years 10 months ago #1366

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Interesting..... Kind of discredits accounts of the loco's use in the construction of the Panama Canal, which was completed in 1914. Also looks like the loco was built for and/or sold immediately to Carpenter. Oh great, now I have something else to learn......... Makes one think the story may be true - that they did have some steamer that was used in Panama, but it got transferred through time to the one loco they had a great photo of.
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Carpenter Technology industrial railroad equipment 10 years 10 months ago #1374

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This photo, "legally" taken via telephoto lens from Bern and McKnight Streets shows two Dinky's as the 24" N.G. locos were called. This is outside the Melt Shop right below where the 2 man crews took their breaks. This shows the ropes, slung across #12's hood which were used to tow the cars. You can also see ropes wrapped around the wheels of #12. This was done to make sure it didn't get frisky and wander down the grade. Behind #12, one can also see some of the flat ingot cars piled up. A fork lift or overhead crane would take a car and put it on the track, then stack glowing red hot ingots on the car to be moved to the ingot storage or if it was a critical heat, it would go straight to another process. Even a photo like this was frowned upon as it was close enough to Company Property and security would be checking on you. I recall in 1973, Carpenter Security coming into the City Desk Sgt. to get a license check because a car was spotted stopping along the Warren Street Bypass and shooting photos towards the mill. Turned out to be a rented vehicle anyway. No more trains running at Carpenter, so don't bother looking. In fact. looking at Google Earth it appears even the scrap yard tracks off the Belt Line are gone.
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