Mining locomotives added

This is another "catching up" post, but back a couple of months ago I decided to add a pair of Phelps-Dodge mining locomotives to the list of preserved equipment. The problem is, I don't have fleet numbers for them.

Both of them are in Douglas, Arizona outside of the city visitors center at 16th & Pan-American Avenue. Until a year or two ago they were plinthed in a parking lot at 11th & H Avenue but their new home is higher-visibility. The first, pictured here, is one of the homebuilt locomotives that Phelps-Dodge constructed around 1906. Three others exactly like it, fleet numbers 15, 17, and 18, are still around and owned by Old Pueblo Trolley, Arizona Street Railway Museum, and Goldfield Ghost Town respectively. It's now on the PNAERC list here.

The second, pictured here, was (according to the caption at the link) built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in 1918. It looks very similar - but intriguingly, not identical - to Phelps-Dodge 2, currently on display (if only marginally preserved) at Goldfield Ghost Town. It's now on the list here. This locomotive may have Westinghouse HL control, as does number 2, but I just don't know.

I'm very interested in fleet numbers for either of these locomotives, so if anyone is passing through Douglas, I'd appreciate it if you could stop by and scout these out! Also, if you're interested in all of the preserved Phelps-Dodge locomotives, just click here. There aren't all that many industrial electric locomotives on the PNAERC roster - small-gauge mining locomotives, for instance, don't fit into the criteria I've developed - but these Phelps-Dodge locomotives are standard gauge and ran using the same type of overhead as most street railways. Some even had Westinghouse HL control. So they're still pretty interesting even if they never ran alongside 62' interurban cars or deck-roof streetcars.