NARROW GAUGE 0-4-0 STEAM ENGINE AT AMHERST SHOW

That whistle was so loud my friend held onto his ears. Great little engine.

Loved seeing that little engine, it was loud but it was music to my ears

What company built that engine, and how late were engines built with slide valves? I'd guess small engines like this would have been built with them by Porter and others later than Class 1 power.

"Locomotive #11 was built by the Boothbay Railway Village in Boothbay Maine. It is a combination of two 1925 Porter locomotives, #10 and #11 that had been on display at Edaville for years."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEkOBNVL7F4

Hi,

Sadly, I missed meeting the many forumites at the show.  But here are my photos.  There were too many people around to get a nice clear shot like MELGAR's but I did get a couple of the cabin.  What others have written about the volume of the whistle is not an exaggeration!

Tomlinson Run Railroad

MELGAR posted:

 This is a very early locomotive. It has slide valves to admit the non-superheated steam to the cylinders. “Modern” steamers were superheated and had piston valves for steam admission.

Thanks for posting the photo. It's a very nice little engine.

It is misleading to state that it is a "very early locomotive." Very early would imply something built in the 1850s or 1860s. And in fact, not all "modern" steam engines were superheated or had piston valves. I fire an engine built in 1941 (the same year as the GS4 4449 Daylight) that is a soak and has slide valves.