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Posted By: Marty Knox <Send E-Mail>Date: Thursday, 13 January 2005, at 4:34 p.m. In Response To: Anyone have any info (old huckleberry postcard) *PIC* (JasonL.) That is a Huckleberry RR #3, Porter mogul similar to the one at the Pine Creek. It was brought back from Panama by Hal Wilmunder, who had an ASME code boiler built for it. The Huckleberry bought it in 1975, but it was really too small for our operation. Once we got 464 it was sold to Bill Von Seht in Wisconsin. He sold it to the Tobie's Mill & Mission Creek RR in Hinckley, Minnesota. It sat in Hinckley for several years after the TM&MC closed, then was sold to Japan. Last I heard it was in service there at an amusement park. A picture of it running in Japan was posted here last year. Q&TL #3 is still sitting in pieces in our back yard.
Porter #3 at the Otaru Transportation Museum in JapanNumber 3 was too small to handle the Huck's trains, and was only used when #2 was in boiler wash. In 1980 it was pushed so hard in this service(oil burner) the tubes were leaking every night and I, being young and skinny, was sent into the firebox in the morning while the boiler maker (not skinny), sat on the deck and ran the air motor to roll tubes using extensions and universal joints! After a week of that, they got the United Gypsum diesel, and that ran service during boiler washes until it blew a cylinder and was retired.Presently the Huck has two steamers to cover boiler washes, and a GE 45 tonner for diesel backup.Steve Zuiderveen[/quote]
Steve Zuiderveen