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vincentberkan — Chesapeake and Ohio 0-6-0F #37, 6/1/1950
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I do not own the photograph, I found it on this SiteIn 1948, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company placed an order with H.K. Porter for 3 0-6-0 Fireless Cookers. These locomotives rolled out of the factory in January 1949 and were numbered 35 - 37, classified as C-8. Unlike normal steam locomotives which use a firebox to create steam in their boilers, "Fireless Cookers" got their steam from an external plant. They are basically big air tanks on wheels filled with water. These locomotives later became the last steamers to work on the C&O working well into the 1960s. They were retired from service in 1965.
If anyone has any information on these babies, please respond in the comments below.
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From what I read, H.K. Porter built their last Locomotives in 1950, so these had to have been amongst the last they built. They specialized in smaller designs like this one.
Not a lot of info on this model readily available. I have the Heisler that PP and L ran on my site, it's larger than this- and it had a ready steam supply available since it worked at a power plant. I'm not certain what steam source these drew from at the yard. I'd be curious how it was set up.
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Do you know when the C&O retired their cookers?
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They would know, or know someone who would know:
cohs.org/
I found it interesting that they have no work history database. PRR's Museum in Altoona has a computer database for former PRR employees. I checked out of curiosity on a visit- Uncle Jim is in there.
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Thanks for the information.
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I might even put a few of these on the K&A's roster.
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I take it you've read my Old Smokey series? I might use them as shop goats and other duty switchers. Also, There was a fireless cooker along the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad that worked for the North American Rayon Company interchanging coal hoppers with the ET&WNC. It served the plant until 1992 (this might be the last steam locomotive to work in the USA under revenue service!)
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I'll try and find a pic of an English fireless.
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