Our group owns a Porter "fireless cooker" type locomotive, long out of service and probably not restorable. These machines took on steam from an external stationary steam source and would work at car switching in a yard enviroment for several hours before being "re-steamed'. Does anyone know of any other existing units of this type, and what is the condition ? I believe that the Atlanta NRHS chapter has one in their collection.

-- Greg Hodges (ghodges@smpsfa.com), April 18, 2000

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Greg, I've seen pictures of one at at a museum in Daton Oh. There is one at the county fairgrounds in Brainerd MN. It's 30 in. gage ex NP tie plant loco. There were two but I don't know where the other one wen

-- Mike Nix (2rivers@upstel.net), September 15, 2000.

THERE IS A SMALL FIRELESS COOKER AT THE HUCKLEBERRY RAILROAD SHOPS IN FLINT, MI. THERE IS A LARGE UNIT, A PORTER THINK, ON DISPLAY IN A PARK IN HATTIESBURG, MISS. IT USED TO BELONG TO HERCULES (EXPLOSIVES) FOR USE IN THEIR PLANT THERE. I SEE A LOT OF PICTURES OF THESE UNITS ON DISPLAY, BUT THESE ARE TWO THAT I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN.

-- DOC DONALDSON (DOCTRAINS@AOL.COM), September 11, 2000.

Greg,

Take a look at the NC Railway Museum at the following link:

http://www.ci.salisbury.nc.us/nctrans/cars/Cpl3info.htm

-- Jerry Dowling (jdowling@lcc.net), May 26, 2000.