Locomotive Specifications

Built August 1909 
HK Porter builder number 4390
0-4-0T 
saddle tank with rear oil bunker 
46" drivers 
15 x 24" cylinders 
175 Boiler Pressure 
87,000 lbs in running order 
18,500 Tractive Effort 
4.9 factor of adhesion 

The first of Porter's "new and improved" 0-4-0 standard gauge tank engines!  

Ownership

Date                  Action               Description
[1909]                  Built For:          Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co. #2 at Davenport, CA
[1924]                  Sold:                Bechtel Kaiser Rock Co. #2 at Oroville, CA
[Unknown]            Corp. Sale:       Henry J. Kaiser Co. #2
[Unknown]            Sold:                Richard Cook
[12/1966]              Sold:               Gunner Henriolle
[1967]                   Sold:               Ray Pollard
[2006]                   Sold:               Efstathios I. Pappas

Santa Cruz Portland Cement #2 at the "Glory Hole" outside of Davenport, CA c. 1910

Now Bechtel Kaiser Rock #2, switching hopper cars in Oroville, CA, c. 1949

As the purchased in 2006. This engine was used as billboard for the Chicken Kitchen restaurant in Stockton, CA for over 30 years. This spawned this locomotive's affectionate nickname "The Chiggen."