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    H.K. Porter, Inc. (Porter) manufactured light-duty railroad locomotives in the US, starting in 1866. The company became the largest producer of industrial...
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    USATC S100 Class (category H. K. Porter locomotives)
    Hill. In 1942, the USATC ordered 382 S100s from Davenport Locomotive Works of Iowa, H. K. Porter, Inc, of Pittsburgh and Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre...
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  • A large quantity of locomotives constructed by the H. K. Porter Company have been preserved in museums, on tourist railroads, and various other locations...
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    A fireless locomotive is a type of locomotive which uses reciprocating engines powered from a reservoir of compressed air or steam, which is filled at...
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  • manufacturer of chemistry sets Porter Motor Company, defunct U.S. car manufacturer H.K. Porter, Inc., a locomotive manufacturer Porter (name), an English surname...
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    Aveling & Porter Loco "Sydenham" in Chatham Dockyard A&P locomotive "Sirapite" at the former Leiston Works of Richard Garrett & Sons Aveling & Porter roller...
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    Manila Railroad 45 class (category H. K. Porter locomotives)
    4-6-0 Ten-wheeler steam locomotives. Twenty locomotives were built by American light duty locomotive manufacturer H.K. Porter, Inc. between 1919 and 1921...
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    Post Office, of the United States Postal Service, opened in 2001. Porter locomotive #873, in service near Congress in the early 1900s. Congress residents...
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    locomotives were imported from the United States. The locomotives were produced by H. K. Porter, Inc, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Two were purchased...
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    JŽ class 62 (category H. K. Porter locomotives)
    106 ex-United States Army Transportation Corps S100 Class 0-6-0T steam locomotives, surplus after the Second World War, plus about 90 similar examples built...
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  • Globe Locomotive Works Glover Locomotive Works Grant Locomotive Works HK Porter – Smith & Porter, later Porter, Bell & Co. Heisler Locomotive Works Hicks...
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    industrial locomotives of Davenport-Besler design. In 1955 CLC bought the Davenport-Besler Corp. Inc., including its inventory of Porter locomotives. A Canadian-only...
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  • and a diesel locomotive, along with many tools and small parts were lost. Also badly damaged were the Shay, Porter and India locomotives. The damage from...
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    A geared steam locomotive is a type of steam locomotive which uses gearing, usually reduction gearing, in the drivetrain, as opposed to the common directly...
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    Pullman porters were men hired to work for the railroads as porters on sleeping cars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought...
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    SEK Class Δα (category H. K. Porter locomotives)
    Class Δα (or Class Da; Delta-alpha) was a class of twenty 0-6-0T steam locomotives of the Hellenic State Railways in Greece. These were ex-United States...
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    Bullard Company 2 (category H. K. Porter locomotives)
    small 0-4-0ST steam tank locomotive which is preserved at the Steamtown National Historic Site. No. 2 was built by H. K. Porter, Inc in October 1937 and...
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    acquired the locomotive business of H. K. Porter, Inc. in 1950 and from then on produced Porter designs as well as its own. The Canadian Locomotive Company...
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    purchased from H.K. Porter, Inc. It was a B-S class locomotive, modified to work through the Rand Level tunnel. Two further locomotives to the same basic...
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    drawings. A Novel Mining Locomotive, The Locomotive Magazine, Vol. IX, No. 125 (Oct. 10, 1903); pages 214-215. Includes photo. H.K. Porter Co., Advertisement...
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  • May 2019. "Aveling and Porter 0-4-0WT No. 8800 Sir Vincent". BRC Stockbook. "Steam Locomotive Information". "Aveling and Porter 2-2-0WT No. 9449 The Blue...
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  • windmill in which Porter and his colleagues are trapped is located at Terling, Essex, and "Gladstone", the ancient steam locomotive, was portrayed by...
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  • The steam locomotives consisted of both Baldwin locomotives ("Frederick Havemeyer" [#1] through number 11) and H. K. Porter locomotives (numbers 12...
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  • of colonial-era Korea, received at least eleven 2-6-2T tank locomotive built by H.K. Porter, Inc. of the United States in 1921, which it numbered 201 through...
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    Oblast, Russia (status unknown) Sestroretsk, Russia Niamey, Niger A porter locomotive of the Äänekoski-Suolahti narrow gauge railway A freight train departing...
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    The Shay locomotive is a geared steam locomotive that originated and was primarily used in North America. The locomotives were built to the patents of...
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    three steam engines, as well as a diesel locomotive in regular service, along with several other locomotives of both types of engines. Most of the railroad's...
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    2-4-0 (category 2-4-0 locomotives)
    In most of North America it became known as a Porter. The notation 2-4-0T indicates a tank locomotive of this wheel arrangement, on which its water and...
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    purpose-built locomotives, they were well-suited for low-speed, short-distance work. Aveling & Porter built over 40 of these locomotives. Related to the...
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    Granite Rock Co. 10 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1942)
    steam locomotive built in 1942 by H.K. Porter for the United States Transportation Corps. No. 10 was built in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by H.K. Porter in...
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