O-4-2T maybe Ken Kidder

@NHVRYGray posted:

Looking for a locomotive similar to the attached picture (The picture is mine, please don't delete it).

I was thinking Ken Kidder imported something similar many years ago, but it could have been HO only.

Pretty sure that Kidder did something like that in O; used to see them fairly often, but not recently.

Yes, Ken Kidder did import an O gauge 0-4-0 version that looked a lot like the prototype picture.

@NHVRYGray posted:

Looking for a locomotive similar to the attached picture (The picture is mine, please don't delete it).

I was thinking Ken Kidder imported something similar many years ago, but it could have been HO only.

Anybody got any ideas if such a thing or anything anywhere close exist.  This would be SMALL,  a B&O dockside 0-4-0T would absolutely dwarf it.

FYI, the engine worked in Goldsboro, NC at Georgia Pacific predecessor Atlas Plywood.

Thanks

Gray Lackey

Looks like an H K Porter to me. It something about the outline of the domes and the covers on the square piston valves that make me think so.  What do you know about the engine in the photo?

No nothing more than the original post except the story goes the plant owner professed to like trains and when asked about preserving it, it was towed across town and cut up.  Urban Legand????

What was the location/timeframe?

Below are pictures of mine from a long time ago of an H. K. Porter that was built as an 0-4-0 saddle tanker.  You can see some similarities.

Ignore the cow catcher.  I know the man who built - It was made out of muffler pipe!

Location Goldsboro, NC  Date unknown, sometime 1958 to 1960 as a guess.

Love the smoke stack arrestor. A barrel?

Dick

This Porter is in Richburg, SC. I took the photos shortly after I moved here:

Unfortunately, I did not take a photo of the information sign so I do not remember anything about it except that it was used somewhere locally.

Hobby Craft hobby shop of NYC ...sold kits to build the little 040T that went in circles for years ...1937 ...please see link

https://youtu.be/55KjnQBegh4

Is there anything published on all Kidder did?...l'd sure like to see it.  Somebody probably specializes in collecting Kidder...

Colorado hirailer, to the best of my knowledge no one has published anything about Ken Kidder's O gauge imports.  They were importing HO equipment from Japan in the late 1950's. In the early 1960's (perhaps before - my hunt through back issues of Model Railroader looking for O gauge equipment didn't turn up anything in the 1950's run) they started importing O gauge brass models in addition to the HO line.

  Below is an ad from the September 1962 issue of Model Railroader.  As you can see the 0-4-0 "plantation engine" does bear a strong resemblance to the prototype picture at the beginning of this thread.  A search through 1966 for Ken Kidder ads gives the impression that the two steam engines were phased out in the 64/65 time frame and Kidder focused on just importing O gauge interurban/trolley models.