Surviving Steam Dummies (North America)

This page is one of a series of pages using the research of Don Sibley and Derek Rayner. Click one of the links below for the other pages:

• Surviving Steam Trams of the World - introduction and acknowledgements

• Steam Trams of North West Europe (UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands) (updated 26th November 2024)

• Steam Trams of the Rest of Europe (new picture and relocation 28th February 2021)

• Steam Trams of Africa, Asia, South America and Australasia (bad news 26th September 2014)

Not quite steam trams but…

• Skirt Tanks (Europe, South America and Asia)

• Near Misses (some oddities) (new picture 29th September 2015)

Definitely not steam trams but…

• Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives with some Tram Features (new discovery 29th April 2024)

• Non-Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives with some Tram Features (another picture 29th October 2013, new link 2nd November 2013)

• Cockerill Locomotives (restoration of 3157, 11th August 2021)

• Steam Railcars (new picture 13th March 2023)

This page was updated on 12th August 2013 with a picture of one of the Fallon, USA locomotive taken at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in 2005 and a further locomotive on the same site (13th August 2013) which necessitated some date correction.

In North America, the term 'steam dummy' is widely used for what the Europeans would call a 'steam tram' although in appearance they are distinctively different. Indeed as these pictures show, American steam dummies in some cases were 'saddle tanks':

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=wmmufl&s=5 
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=19bgx1&s=5

(The links come from this page - http://www.diybanter.com/uk-diy/309838-bending-3-8-copper-pipe-2.html - they show the steam dummy at MOTAT in New Zealand.)

While there are few survivors in North America and those that remain are mostly heavily modified, there are several Baldwin steam dummies listed under Australasia (where they are called steam trams) which are probably the best representatives of the genre.

Click on a thumbnail for a larger picture, then click the link or the image to return to this page. The page with the larger image carries the name of the photographer concerned, as you will see further pictures are needed. If you can fill the gaps or provide an alternative larger image approx 800 x 600, please get in touch using the email address at the bottom of the page.

North America

	Owner	Owner No	Builder	Wks No/date	Gauge (mm)	Wheels	Location / Notes
Canada
	Beck Lumber Co (Hamilton & Dundas)		Baldwin	4774/1879	1435	0-4-0	Penetanguishene Centennial Museum, Penetanguishene, Ontario Another picture Information on http://www.trainweb.org/hamtransithist/Dummies.html new site November 2014.
	Spokane & Montrose Motor RR	1	Porter	922/1888	914	0-6-0	At Transportation Museum, Whitehorse, Yukon . See http://www.discovery-school.org/streetcars.html (website hacked by 29th October 2017) Also worked on the Coal Creek RR and Northern Lights Power and Coal Co.
Your Picture Here!	Spokane & Montrose Motor RR	'Cliff Chief'	Porter	1167/1890	914	0-6-0	Near Carcross Cutoff, Whitehorse, Yukon. See http://www.discovery-school.org/streetcars.html (website hacked by 29th October 2017). Also worked on the Coal Creek RR and Northern Lights Power and Coal Co.
Cuba
	Ferrocarril Urbano Y Omnibus (Havana)		Baldwin	8808/1887(?)	1435	0-4-0	George Washington Mill, Villa Clara
USA
	Mammoth Cave Railroad	4	Baldwin	9442/1888	1435	0-4-0	Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
	Built for the Market Street, Park and Cliff Railroad in San Francisco, but worked on the Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railroad. Later sold to Southern Pacific (became #20)	2	Baldwin	5357/1880	1435	0-4-0 (was 0-4-2)	Travel Town Museum, Griffith Park, Los Angeles. (http://traveltown.org,link broken by December 2021) Much rebuilt over the years!. Picture (original condition)
	Consolidated Mines Company	35	Porter	873/1887	1435	0-4-0	Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona Information  Link broken by 1st November 2018, http://www.sharlot.org/library-archives/days-past/one-last-restoration-the-history-and-tribulations-of-a-steam-locomotive/
	Built for the Market Street, Park and Cliff Railroad in San Francisco, see link.	1	Baldwin	5009/1880	1435	0-4-0	Guest House Museum, Fort Bragg, California Information, more information, picture
	Brown & Rush Mine		Porter	1392/1892	1067	0-4-2	Salmon Creek Railroad, Fallon, Nevada
	Annex Creek Power Plant (Berners Bay Mining & Milling)		Porter	1421/1892	914	0-4-0	Salmon Creek Railroad, Fallon, Nevada Listing
	Port Townsend Construction and Street Railroad		Porter	1117/1889	914	0-4-2	Port Townsend, Washington Listing
Your Picture Here!	Seaboard Air Line Railroad	1003	Baldwin	40131/1913	1435	0-4-0	John Tisdale, L&N Depot, Andalusia, Alabama Listing (does not appear under Alabama) Picture (????) and another picture