Steam & Excursion > Porter 0-4-2T

I was looking for help in finding any info I can on a Porter locomotive with s/n 858.  It was a 0-4-2T built in 1887.  Found the Baldwin database but not the Porter on line.  Looking for a drawing, spec or image.  It was the second loco purchased by my home road, the Warrenton Railroad in NC where I started my railroad career.

Thanks for any advice on my first thread!
 

Didn't find the particular locomotive you were looking for, but here are samples. This is from from original 1889 H.K.Porter catalogue. I hope this helps.

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Clifton AZ last year



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/19 06:37 by SD45X.

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Thanks for the help, was hoping with the sn that I found in an old Seaboard (the connecting road) book that there would be an archive record out there somewhere of its 1886-7  manufacture. 
 

Unfortunately the catalogue does not give the construction number in the performance reports. Bill Oden and I bought ex-Rogue River Valley Railway Co. No, 1 c/n 1236, 1891, from Chad O'Connor on March 5, 1967.
It was built as a 2-4-2T. Sold to Dave Wilkinson, Fillmore & Western Ry. in January of 1997. It has subsequently been returner to Jacksonville, OR.

Stan,

I remember one time you were operating the Porter in Fillmore, CA for one event. You rolled slowly into the crossing circuit for Central Ave., and waited for the crossing gates to decend. As you were rolling across Central Ave., the two drivers on one side rolled over a flattened XXL sized paper cup laying on top of one rail, insulating the shunt connection, and the crossing gates promptly started to raise back up!

Fun times.