Number Nine, Number Nine

o anderson · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2009 1:47 am

Number 9 Coal Museum has a one of the Lehigh coal engines up for restoration now...
http://no9mine.tripod.com/New2007/lokie.html

J.David · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2009 1:44 pm

Greetings:
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. No. 51, Vulcan c/n 3311, built 02/1923, formerly displayed by NJMofT at Farmingdale, NJ...
J.David

Mike Piersa · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 6:04 pm

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:

Tom Parkins · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 11:46 am

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

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

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

survivingworldsteam · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:24 pm

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.

G. W. Laepple · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:10 pm **Posts:** 1182

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.

kevin kohls · **Joined:** Tue May 03, 2005 8:35 pm **Posts:** 298

It clearly has a firebox, something that a compressed air locomotive would not need.

Kevin