[Steam-engine] Re: New Orleans fireless steam streatcar (Recentpost)

[Orrin Iseminger]

There is a brief mention of OKRA on this Web page about compressed air
locomotives:

http://www.cdmrr.com/other_porters.html

Orrin

Orrin Iseminger
Colton, Washington, USA
http://users.moscow.com/oiseming/lc_ant_p/index.htm
So many projects.  So little time.   

-----Original Message-----
From: steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of James
Hefner
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:16 AM
To: Steam-engine mailing list
Subject: [Steam-engine] Re: New Orleans fireless steam streatcar
(Recentpost)

Hi Dick; 

I don't have the post; but I think I have a slight clarification to make.  
If we are talking about the Orleans-Kenner Railway (OKRA) engine that is now

preserved in Mel Ott Park on the Belle Chase Highway in Gretna, LA; it is a 
compressed air locomotive, not a fireless locomotive. 

Instead of the insulated steam vessel, compressed air locomotives had from 
one to three uninsulated air tanks.  Like a compressed air locomotive, they 
were charged from a stationary source, and could run for hours on a single 
charge.  The chassie for both are roughly the same. 

My old website is now gone; but it can accessed from the Web archives.  The 
webpage with the picture of this engine (as well as your pictures of the 
Forney engine remains on the shore of Lake Verret) can be seen at: 

http://web.archive.org/web/20050301093958/www.pernet.net/~james1/texas/louis

iana.html 

 -James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a 

Surviving World Steam Project
http://www.survivingworldsteam.com 


RBGIBB111 at aol.com writes: 

> I lost this post and wanted to get more info.  Anybody still have  it?
I'd 
> like to have it.  It's about an insulated steam vessel that  is charged
with a 
> stationary boiler, enough for the 9 mile trip from New Orleans  to the
then 
> (1880)  rural Carollton area.  
> Advance Thanks!   Dick Gibbens 
>