It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:47 pm

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 9 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:12 am 
User avatar

Joined: Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:30 am
Posts: 1231
Location: Eagan, MN
As recently as 1993 there were reports of an H.C. Frick Coke Co. 0-4-0T (H.K. Porter 7998 of 1946) operational at the Shoaf Coke Plant in Fairchance, PA. By 2008, it was reported as being stored in "excellent condition" in a structure at the plant. Later that year it was offered for sale on railswap.org.

Now, the structure is reportedly gone, and the locomotive nowhere to be seen. Any ideas where it might be?

_________________
Doug Bailey, Webmaster http://www.steamlocomotive.info


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:30 am 

Joined: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:26 am
Posts: 4642
Location: Maine
Perhaps Elon Musk shot it to Mars? ;-)

_________________
"It's only impossible until it's done." -Nelson Mandela


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:57 am 

Joined: Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am
Posts: 2561
Location: Strasburg, PA
There's a flooded quarry not to far from here, I'll go look.


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:43 pm 

Joined: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm
Posts: 2279
I haven't found anything on the Porter, but a group rescued a Plymouth out of that complex about six years ago (I recall seeing something about the Plymouth on RyPN):

http://americanindustrialmining.com/sho ... eservation

I doubt they have the Porter, or they would have featured it prominently on their website, but I would bet they would know something about it. I am attempting to make contact to see if they have any leads.


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:29 pm 

Joined: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm
Posts: 2279
Spoke to Pete Jedlicka of the American Industrial Mining Co preservation group, he says the Porter sat in the same building as the Plymouth and was fired up for the family of the private individual who owns it up until a few years before they rescued the Plymouth. The private individual, whom they are in contact with, relocated it to either North Carolina or South Carolina a few years before they rescued the Plymouth, he is digging up the exact information so you can update the listing and will get it to me when he does. He also said that almost everything is still in place at the Shoaf Coke Plant, 46 years after it closed. Here is a video of it two years before it closed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cfa2TFhKuE


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:08 am 

Joined: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:07 pm
Posts: 203
Is there any hope that the C&O hopper car at Shoaf can be saved? It's a twin offset alternate standard design with oval heap shields. I saw it several months ago and it was in rough, but savable condition. C&O had thousands of similar cars, but this may be the only one still in existence.

Tom


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 6:45 am 

Joined: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm
Posts: 2279
Tom Davidson wrote:
Is there any hope that the C&O hopper car at Shoaf can be saved? It's a twin offset alternate standard design with oval heap shields. I saw it several months ago and it was in rough, but savable condition. C&O had thousands of similar cars, but this may be the only one still in existence.

Tom

I agree about its significance, I will ask about it if I get the chance.


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:10 am 
User avatar

Joined: Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:30 am
Posts: 1231
Location: Eagan, MN
PMC wrote:
Spoke to Pete Jedlicka of the American Industrial Mining Co preservation group, he says the Porter sat in the same building as the Plymouth and was fired up for the family of the private individual who owns it up until a few years before they rescued the Plymouth. The private individual, whom they are in contact with, relocated it to either North Carolina or South Carolina a few years before they rescued the Plymouth, he is digging up the exact information so you can update the listing and will get it to me when he does. He also said that almost everything is still in place at the Shoaf Coke Plant, 46 years after it closed. Here is a video of it two years before it closed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cfa2TFhKuE


Any further word on this? I am updating the site this week and collided with this one, again.

_________________
Doug Bailey, Webmaster http://www.steamlocomotive.info


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Another Missing 0-4-0T
PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 12:17 pm 

Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm
Posts: 6400
PMC wrote:
Tom Davidson wrote:
Is there any hope that the C&O hopper car at Shoaf can be saved? It's a twin offset alternate standard design with oval heap shields. I saw it several months ago and it was in rough, but savable condition. C&O had thousands of similar cars, but this may be the only one still in existence.

Tom

I agree about its significance, I will ask about it if I get the chance.


Would also like current info on the C&O hopper car there at Shoaf. Is it still there? Available for donation?

Les


Offline
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 9 posts ] 

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


 Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Glenn Opande, Google [Bot], QJdriver, traingeek8223, whodom and 122 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to: