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	Heisler History
		By 1920 Heislers were available in sizes ranging from twenty-four to ninety tons and design improvements continued to reflect the engineering heritage of the locomotive.
		The culmination of the Heisler design was the "West Coast Special", an improved ninety-ton class locomotive design to compete with Lima's Pacific Coast Shay and the Willamette locomotives.
		Just as the beginnings of the Heisler locomotive were different than those of the Shay and Climax, the final days were also different.
	mylogging.netfirms.com /log-heishist.html (803 words)

	National Railway Historical Society (NRHS)
		In mines, the locomotives were filled with compressed air at a stationary compressor, or the air was pumped through a pipeline at different stations for the tank to be recharged.
		While the fireless locomotive is the most simple of all haulage units, it involves problems in design as extensive as the variables of the steam tables which govern its operation.
		The fireless locomotive must not only be designed for maximum efficiency at low pressure including the important item of braking but rods, crank pins and other parts must be protected against contingent stresses which were possible up to the maximum pressure to which the tank can be charged.
	www.nrhs.com /web_exclusives/fireless_cooker (2458 words)

	The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains - View Single Post - Fireless steam locomotives
		heated until the pressure and temperature in, the locomotive tank are the same as in the stationary boiler from which the charge is being taken.
		The energy stored in the locomotive tank in the form of heat is transmitted to the rail in the form of tractive force through the expansion of steam in the large low-pressure cylinders of the locomotive.
		The time required for charging a Fireless locomotive depends upon the pressure and horsepower of the boiler from which it is being supplied, as well as the size of the locomotive.
	www.the-gauge.com /showpost.php?p=5944&postcount=2 (791 words)

	SRM Exhibits: The Heisler
		Charles L. Heisler was the inventor of the Heisler Geared Locomotive.
		After the death of an associate at Dunkirk, Heisler looked for another producer, ending up with the Stearns Manufacturing Company which manufactured logging equipment and felt a geared locomotive was a natural addition to the line.
		Heisler then disassociated himself from the design, going on to other projects at Alco, GE, the Army and Navy with some teaching and consulting at Penn State.
	www.srmduluth.org /Exhibits/heisler.htm (296 words)

	Sierra Scale Models Gallery - Photographs of Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad: Alco #17 Rod Locomotive
		The third major builder of geared logging locomotives was the Heisler Locomotive Works of Erie, PA. Invented by Charles Heisler in 1892, the Heisler design combined the flexibility of a geared locomotive with increased speed.
		When the Willamette locomotive was first introduced in the Northwest logging market in 1922, Heisler was the first victim of this new competitor.
		She was renumbered to #91 at MRSR in honor of an earlier big 3-truck Heisler that worked out of Mineral, WA for the West Fork Logging Company, an operation founded by the father of Tom Murray.
	www.sierrascalemodels.com /Gallery/Rainier/Heisler91.htm (466 words)

	Sumpter Valley steam locomotives
		These engines including, among others, the type Shay, Climax and Heisler were called geared engines in reference to their transmission mechanism and as opposed to the more classical rod steam engines.
		The Heisler type locomotives are characterized by their two cylinders forming a V on each side of the boiler, transmiting momentum by a crankshaft to a longitudinal shaft running under the frame of the locomotive.
		Several hundred locomotives of this type, patented by Charles Heisler in 1891, were built until 1941, most of them by the Heisler Locomotive Works in Erie, Pennsylvania.
	drgw.free.fr /SV/Steam/Vapeur_en.htm (854 words)

	Sumpter Valley Railway Sumpter Oregon Railroad News 2003
		While she possesses nowhere near the speed capabilities of the number 19, the 3 was moving along at a good enough clip to whip one of her white flags right out of the bracket.
		The Heisler has had her rear truck removed and is being supported on a pyramid shaped stand.
		The Heisler locomotive was switched from the Car Shop to the former No. 19 shed, the 19 was taken to the new back shop, which recently had doors installed, the coach was taken from the back shop and put in the Car Shop, as was the RPO, recently acquired by SVRR in Colorado.
	www.svry.com /news/2003updates/news2003.htm (2290 words)

	Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad - 3 Truck Heisler #91
		The third major builder of geared logging locomotives was the Heisler Locomotive Works of Erie, PA. Invented by Charles Heisler in 1892 the Heisler design combined the flexibility of a geared locomotive with increased speed over its major competitors, the Shay and the Climax.
		When the Willamette locomotive was first introduced into the Northwest logging market market in 1922, Heisler was the first victim of this new competitor.
		She was renumbered to #91 at MRSR in honor of an earlier big 3-truck Heisler that worked out of Mineral, WA for the West Fork Logging Company, an operation founded by the father of Tom Murray, one of the driving forces behind the Mount Rainer Scenic RR.
	www.mrsr.com /roster/roster-heisler_91.html (513 words)

	Builders_1
		When a locomotive was ready for the builder's plates, or a plate in the case of the Class A, the first single or matching pair found would be placed on the locomotive.
		Locomotive porduction increased again during World War II, and the company was recognized for its service to the country in 1942, but soon after the end of the war, demand for steam locomotives dwindled, and H. Porter became primarily a holding company for the many subsidiaries Evans had acquired.
		Locomotives continued to be successfully produced for the world market, although the First World War changed the emphasis of production for the duration of the war to gun shells and mountings, mine sweeping devices, caterpillar tractors and other war items.
	www.trainweb.org /loggingz/builders_1.html (19488 words)

	Forgotten Locomotives
		This locomotive was on its way to Vancouver to be sold as scrap when the barge rolled and dumped it into Beaver Cove.
		The locomotive was loaded on a barge and on January 1, 1947 at about 6:20 in the morning, the barge tilted, dumping the locomotive into the lake (what a way to start the new year).
		Apparently, the locomotive is standing upright on its drivers and the only damage that it got on the way down was to the cow catcher.
	members.shaw.ca /preservedsteambc/forgotten_bc_locis.htm (2208 words)

	Heisler No. 5 - Niles Canyon Railway
		All that was known was that the locomotive that started the fire was painted fl, and somehow the Standard Lumber Company was blamed for the fire.
		Like the Number 12 and several other locomotives, the Number 5 was delivered to a storage site [in Fremont] at the end of 1986, where she joined the Number 1.
		Of the other two 3T Heislers that were owned by Pickering, the Number 10, which had gone to Klamath, is now in Washington State, and the Number 2 is on display at Travel Town in Los Angeles.
	www.ncry.org /roster/s_05/plc5.shtml (1093 words)

	Geared steam locomotive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A geared steam locomotive is a type of steam locomotive which uses reduction gearing in the drivetrain, as opposed to the common directly-driven design.
		This cannot be too large, for the locomotive will be unable to generate enough steam to supply those large cylinders at speed; it cannot be too small, or the starting torque and thus tractive effort will be too small, and the locomotive will not be able to start a train.
		Many applications required a low speed locomotive with ample starting tractive effort; industrial use, mines and quarries and logging operations, steeply graded lines and the like, especially when the track is cheaply built and not suited to high speeds anyway.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Geared-steam-locomotive.htm (801 words)

	Cass Scenic Railroad
		All the Cass locomotives are coal burners, and are manually fired, with the possible exception of #6.
		The old boiler was sitting beside the locomotive, and they were proposing to section it to show what the interior of a boiler looked like.
		Barbara mentioned the sectioned locomotive she saw at Steamtown, and the guide was not sure he liked the idea of sectioning a complete locomotive.
	www.pacificsun.ca /~robert/travel2002/cass/cass1.html (1198 words)

	Heisler locomotive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Compared to the Shay and Climax, the Heisler was a rather latecomer.
		In 1892 Charles L. Heisler received a patent on the locomotive that would also bear his name.
		Although superficially resembling a Climax, what set his locomotive apart was that the cylinders were slanted inwards at a 45 degree angle.
	www.mrollins.com /heisler.html (117 words)

	The Heisler Locomotive Project
		The Heisler should be much easier than the Shay (or Climax) to model.
		One of the main differences is in the trucks where the side frames are fairly plan and hidden by the wheels.
		At this time (August 2005) the majority of the main locomotive design is complete and patterns for nearly all the castings required for a functioning locomotive are finished.
	www.nelsonslocomotive.com /Heisler/heisler.htm (1917 words)

	cass_scenic_railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Heisler's design revolved around two pistons angled at 45 degrees.
		Lionel Heisler locomotives are both detailed replicas of this American original.
		Both Lionel Heisler locomotives are based on a three-truck 90 ton version that was built in 1929, and still survives to
	www.hobbystation.net /cass_scenic_railroad.html (308 words)

	Heisler Locomotive Works Number (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A 3-truck 80 Ton Locomotive, our Ex-Middle Fork engine was the last new Heisler sold to a customer before the Heisler Locomotive Works closed their doors forever in 1941.
		The locomotive was moved to the North Carolina Railroad Museum in Bonsal, North Carolina in 1989 to facilitate restoration.
		The locomotive was examined by Diversified Rail Services in 1993 and found to be worthy of restoration.
	www.nhvry.org /heisler.htm (154 words)

	Heisler No. 1 - Niles Canyon Railway
		The 85-ton Heisler was built in 1913 (sn 1272) for Dempsey Lumber Company.
		The locomotive was rebuilt around 1955, but never returned to service because Pickering converted to diesel power in 1956.
		It is currently in storage in the Niles area of Fremont, California near its identical twin, the Pickering Heisler No. 5, which the PLA also owns.
	www.ncry.org /roster/s_01/plc1.shtml (241 words)

	Heritage Perspectives: Trout Creek Railway
		Their first rolling stock was a new Heisler, two-truck, twenty-six ton locomotive, purchased new from the factory in Pennsylvania.
		In 1917, at the age of 20, he had his chance to drive the Heisler when the regular engineer became ill. Even though as Hartley wrote in his diary: “I thought I was going to have a steady job,” a new engineer was soon found and he went on to other work for the company.
		The locomotive did all kinds of work in the mill yards in Trout Creek, and often made three trips a day for logs at the end of the steel.
	www.pastforward.ca /perspectives/may052000.htm (686 words)

	From Antelope to Camino: The Hal Wilmunder Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Holmes brothers moved the locomotive to the ranch of lifelong Southern Pacific engineer and prune rancher Billy Jones in Los Gatos, California, where the Holmes brothers and their friends worked to restore what was the last full-scale steam locomotive in Los Gatos.
		The locomotive was the second locomotive acquired by Wilmunder, and was numbered 2; a number it retains today at its current home at the Huckleberry Railroad.
		The Heisler arrived at the museum in late 2004 (middle-Photo by Daniel Maxwell) for a restoration to her as-built appearance for the Richardson Lumber Co. Here's restored ex-Michigan-California Lumber Co. Shay #2 at Railfair '81 in Sacramento, owned by Wilmunder for a time and also one of the oldest surviving Shay locomotives in the world.
	www.bjwrr.com /ontrack/wilmunder.htm (2847 words)

	phorum - 'Bach Man' Message Board - Heisler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If the heisler is produced it may be the West Side Lumber Co. #2, which is a 38-ton heisler locomotive from 1899 that burns oil, has an all weathered cab, and is the oldest surviving heisler in existance.
		It might also be like the 14-ton Catatonk live steam heisler, the Oregon Lumber Company heisler like in large scale, or the Sumpter Valley heisler.
		Heisler built only one geared fireless loco (there were two Lukens locos).
	www.bachmanntrains.com /home-usa/board/read.php?f=1&t=91940&a=2 (497 words)

	Stateside Switchers - (4) Heisler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first locomotive to Heisler's design (built by the Stearns Manufacturing Company) was delivered to Mexico in 1894.
		One axle of each bogie was driven by gears through a central longitudinal transmission shaft, and the wheels of each bogie were connected by coupling rods.
		The Heisler was the simplest of the five American geared designs since it used only two sets of gears, but was second in popularity to the Shay (built by the Lima Locomotive Works) probably because the Shay's running gear is mounted on one side and is therefore readily accessible for repairs.
	www.irsociety.co.uk /Archives/20/Switchers_4.htm (185 words)

	Geared Locomotives of Heisler, Shay, Climax
		The Shay locomotive, designed in 1872 and patented in 1881, and its two variants -- the Climax and the Heisler -- employ small high-speed steam engines geared down to axles on four-wheel trucks.
		It is a 37-ton locomotive regarded as powerful for its weight, economical on fuel, and easy to maintain.
		The Tuolumne is the oldest Heisler type operating, having worked for the Hetch Hetchey and Yosemite Valley Railway during the Gold Rush days and then at the West Side Flume and Lumber Company in Tuolumne, Calif. It was originally called the Thomas S. Bullock.
	www.asme.org /history/roster/H134.html (277 words)

	UTU: News
		Now, after undergoing almost a year of renovation in the museum's restoration shop, the rare 95-ton Heisler Locomotive No. 4094 is about to take center stage.
		It was then resold to Pennsylvania Power and Light, which used it to pull loads of coal from the mines to a steam generating power plant near Sunbury.
		The bell, light and horn were rechromed, and the art deco wings and letter "H" (for Heisler) were restored on the engine's front.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=3620 (609 words)

	Cass Scenic Railroad #6 approaches Whittaker, WV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cass #6 is a 1929 3-truck 90 ton Heisler built by the Heisler Locomotive Works of Erie, Pennsylvania.
		This design was a competitor of the Shay and used 2 steam cylinders positioned in a "V" under the boiler driving a prop shaft along the loco centreline to the 3 geared trucks.
		Heisler #6 is seen approaching Whittaker, WV which is 4 miles from Cass and is the site of the picnic grounds.
	www.michaeltaylor.ca /US/cass6-whit.shtml (113 words)

	Phoenix Sound Sound Library: Heisler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Geared steam locomotives were unusual configurations compared to the classic drive rod types.
		Yet they were popular, especially on lumber and industrial railroads at the start of the 20th century.
		This photograph shows Accucraft's Heisler locomotive -- a great companion to the Bachman Shay and Climax.
	www.phoenixsound.com /sound_library/american_steam/heis/heisler.htm (84 words)

	Rivarossi Heisler Steam Locomotive: Discount Model Trains - Global Train Supply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For more than 50 years Heisler gear-driven locos handled the toughest hauling jobs in America.
		Moving timber, iron, coal, ore and doing industrial switching, they were legendary for their ability to move heavy loads on the roughest track.
		A can motor and new gearbox are connected to a super replica of the V-2 "motor engine," so the crankshaft, rods and valve gear move like the originals.
	www.globaltrainsupply.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=GTS/PROD/635-5460 (321 words)

	A History of Roaring Camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The one-note whistle once sat atop the steam dome of a locomotive of the Santa Maria Valley Railroad, and the Baldwin builder's plate (off a big Chessie steamer in Virginia) was affixed for a matter of hours by Ward to have fun with local railfans.
		Built as a standard-gauge locomotive for the Alaculsy Lumber Company, it served a variety of logging lines in Tennessee and West Virginia and was subsequently regauged by one of them.
		A small Whitcomb diesel locomotive was brought down from the sand plant in Olympia and became the first locomotive of the new Santa Cruz Big Trees and Pacific Railway.
	www.bjwrr.com /ontrack/roaring-camp.htm (4111 words)

	general electric locomotive works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	general-electric1.electricmofo.com /general-electric-locomotive-works.html (235 words)

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