Picture 18-4.

This is the compressed air locomotive.  It was built by Porter in 1915, and purchased second hand by S&WB in the 1920s, primarily to work tracks that had no trolley wire.  This photo dates to the late 1950s.  Its three tanks could hold a maximum pressure of 1,000 psi.

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