Number 9 Coal Museum has a one of the Lehigh coal engines up for restoration now...
http://no9mine.tripod.com/New2007/lokie.html
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| Author: | o anderson [ Wed May 13, 2009 1:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Number Nine, Number Nine |
Number 9 Coal Museum has a one of the Lehigh coal engines up for restoration now... http://no9mine.tripod.com/New2007/lokie.html
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| Author: | J.David [ Wed May 13, 2009 1:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Number Nine, Number Nine |
Greetings: Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. No. 51, Vulcan c/n 3311, built 02/1923, formerly displayed by NJMofT at Farmingdale, NJ... J.David |
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| Author: | Mike Piersa [ Thu May 14, 2009 6:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Number Nine, Number Nine |
I saw it yesterday and noticed that they have made a lot of progress. The tender looks finished. The locomotive is being primed and prepped for patching the saddle tank in the near future: 
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| Author: | Tom Parkins [ Fri May 15, 2009 11:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Number Nine, Number Nine |
From the Web page....No.9 Mine & Museum received the motor on Jan. 23, 2009 Was motor a mining term for these? Or is that just a mis-type of terminology. I understood them as Lokies. What guage is this? Nice to see it preserved. Painted in primer it strikes me as a Space Shuttle fuel tank on a set of drivers. Tom |
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| Author: | Les Beckman [ Fri May 15, 2009 12:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Number Nine, Number Nine |
Tom Parkins wrote: From the Web page....No.9 Mine & Museum received the motor on Jan. 23, 2009 Was motor a mining term for these? Or is that just a mis-type of terminology. I understood them as Lokies. What guage is this? Nice to see it preserved. Tom Tom - The gauge is 3'6" (42") as I recall. Les |
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| Author: | survivingworldsteam [ Fri May 15, 2009 1:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Number Nine, Number Nine |
Tom Parkins wrote: From the Web page....No.9 Mine & Museum received the motor on Jan. 23, 2009 Was motor a mining term for these? Or is that just a mis-type of terminology. I think they used the term for a steam locomotive when in fact it was used for compressed air locomotives. Since this steam locomotive has an almost non-existant stack and sand dome for clearance purposes, it does resemble a compressed-air motor or fireless locomotive. |
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| Author: | G. W. Laepple [ Fri May 15, 2009 2:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Number Nine, Number Nine |
I don't think so. Near the top of the announcement, no. 51 is referred to as a "lokie," the only term I've ever heard applied to these little engines in my entire 62 years of being around mines and coal crackers. I think whoever generated this announcement may have used an earlier announcement when they received an actual mine motor as a template. An uncle of mine operated mine motors for a third of his life, and my grandfather was a machinist who repaired lokies and motors. I think they knew the difference. |
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| Author: | kevin kohls [ Sat May 16, 2009 11:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Number Nine, Number Nine |
It clearly has a firebox, something that a compressed air locomotive would not need. Kevin |
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