Kennecott Chino Mines Division

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All Chino Mines Division Porter locomotives were built for Chino Copper Company; to Nevada Consolidated Copper Company; to Kennecott Copper Corporation, Chino Mines Division.

Porter 0-4-0 Saddle Tank — 4 locomotives
15x24 cylinders; 46 inch drivers

Road Number	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date Retired	Notes
CMD 1	Aug 1910	4710
CMD 2	Aug 1910	4711
CMD 3	Aug 1910	4712
CMD 4	Aug 1910	4713

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Porter 0-4-0 Saddle Tank — 4 locomotives
15x24 cylinders; 46 inch drivers

Road Number	Previous Number	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date Retired	Notes
CMD 5	(UCC 34)	Nov 1910	4783
CMD 6	(UCC 35)	Nov 1910	4784
CMD 7	(UCC 36)	Dec 1910	4785
CMD 8	(UCC 37)	Dec 1910	4786

General Notes:

a.	Equipped with full saddle tanks across boiler
b.	The 1915 list of Porter locomotives confirms that four locomotives built as Utah 34-37 were delivered to Chino, and four later locomotives built as Utah 38-41 were delivered as Utah 34-37, replacing the four sent to Chino.
c.	An irregularity exists in the Porter records -- the four 45 or 48 ton Porters are shown as being delivered to Utah, when in fact they were delivered to Chino. Four of the Chino engines came from among the Utah engines numbered 32 and above. The Insurance register validated that and the four smaller Porters became Chino 5-9. Chino had about 10 or 11 of the smaller Porters including five saddle tankers 9 to 13. Unfortunately, because the Porter records didn't include road numbers, it makes validation more difficult. I have been able to read some of the builder's numbers on the Chino engines and those numbers have seemed to confirm a chronological order by builders number up through Porter no. 21. (Steve Swanson email dated January 11, 2012)
d.	Earlier rosters based on Porter records, and earlier research have always shown (in error) that Chino 18 was ex Utah Copper 17 (Porter 4240, 12/1908), transferred from Utah, with a disposition after Chino as being sold to Utah Construction Company no. 18 (headquarters in San Leandro, California) (Locomotive Notes II, Number 135, page 4) (see also the Porter builder lists published in Locomotive Notes II, numbers 130, 131, 132, 135, 137, 140 and 141)

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Porter 0-4-0 Saddle Tank — 7 locomotives
15x24 cylinders; 46 inch drivers

Road Number	Porter Number	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date Retired	Notes
CMD 9	(CMD 5	Dec 1911	4989
CMD 10	(CMD 6)	Feb 1912	5028
CMD 11	(CMD 7)	Feb 1912	5029
CMD 12	(CMD 8)	Sep 1912	5108
CMD 13	(CMD 9)	Sep 1912	5161
CMD 14	(CMD 10)	Oct 1912	5211
CMD 15	(CMD 11)	Oct 1912	5212

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Porter 0-4-0 Tank — 6 locomotives
16x24 cylinders; 46 inch drivers

Road Number	Porter Number	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date Retired	Notes
CMD 16	(CMD 12)	May 1913	5220
CMD 17	(CMD 13)	May 1913	5290
CMD 18	(CMD 14)	Jun 1913	5401
CMD 19	(CMD 15)	Jun 1913	5402
CMD 20	(CMD 16)	Aug 1914	5590
CMD 21	(CMD 17)	Aug 1914	5591

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Alco 0-6-0 Saddle Tank — 9 locomotives
21x26 cylinders; 51 inch drivers

Road Number	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date Retired	Notes
CMD 22	Oct 1919	58735	Sep 1940	to Nevada Mines Division
CMD 23	Oct 1919	58736		to U.S. Navy in San Diego
CMD 24	Oct 1919	58737	Sep 1940	to Nevada Mines Division
CMD 25	Aug 1920	62493
CMD 26	Aug 1920	62494
CMD 27	Aug 1920	62495
CMD 28	Sep 1923	65183
CMD 29	Sep 1923	65184
CMD 30	Sep 1923	65185

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Alco 0-6-0 Saddle Tank — 2 locomotives
21x26 cylinders; 50 inch drivers

Road Number	Previous Number	Date To Chino	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date Retired	Notes
CMD 31	Messabe Iron 72	1929	Aug 1920	62501
CMD 32	Messabe Iron 73	1929	Dec 1923	65364
CMD 33

General Notes:

a.	Chino Mines Division 31 and 32 were built as Messabe Iron Company 72 and 73

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Baldwin 0-6-0 Side Tank — 6 locomotives
20x24 cylinders; 50 inch drivers

Road Number	Previous Number	Date To Chino	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date Retired	Notes
CMD 34	UCD 85	1929	Sep 1923	57092	1946	to E.J. Lavino in Ruessens, West Virginia; preserved in Roanoke, Virginia.
CMD 35	UCD 80	1929	Apr 1917	45437
CMD 36					Early 1940	to Nevada Mines Division
CMD 37	UCD 75	1929	Oct 1915	42624	Early 1940	to Nevada Mines Division
CMD 38	UCD 76	1929	Oct 1915	42625	Early 1940	to Nevada Mines Division
CMD 39	UCD 77	1929	Apr 1917	45434
CMD 40	UCD 78	1929	Apr 1917	45435

General Notes:

a.	Chino Mines Division 34-40 were built as Utah Copper Division locomotives; transferred to Chino in 1929

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GE 125-ton electric — 4 locomotives
B-B; 250,000 pounds operating weight

Road Number	Previous Number	Builder Date	Builder Number	KCC Utah Number	Date To Utah	Rebuild Date	Notes
CMD 1	CMD 101	Sep 1954	32186	KCC-Utah 410	Feb 1965	Mar 1965	1
CMD 2	CMD 102	Sep 1954	32187	KCC-Utah 408	Nov 1964	Dec 1964	2
CMD 3	CMD 103	Apr 1958	33347	KCC-Utah 409	Dec 1964	Feb 1965	3
CMD 4	CMD 104	Apr 1958	33348	KCC-Utah 778	Dec 1971		4

General Notes:

a.	KCC Chino Mines Division 1-4 were built as KCC Chino Mines Division 101-104; renumbered to CMD 1-4 before April 1959. (photo of KCC-Chino 101 in 1956 Locomotive Cyclopedia, page 426)
b.	Operated using 750 VDC

Notes:

1.	KCC Chino 1 was transferred to KCC Utah Copper Division in 1964; rebuilt to dumper engine and renumbered to KCC Utah 410; retired by Kennecott in December 1978
2.	KCC Chino 2 was transferred to KCC Utah Copper Division in 1964; rebuilt to dumper engine and renumbered to KCC Utah 408; retired by Kennecott in December 1978; donated to Boone Valley Historical Society (Boone, Iowa) in November 1985, delivered in June 1986; both units remain in the collection, as of January 25, 2011.
3.	KCC Chino 3 was transferred to KCC Utah Copper Division in 1964; rebuilt to dumper engine and renumbered to KCC Utah 409; retired by Kennecott in December 1978; donated to Boone Valley Historical Society (Boone, Iowa) in November 1985, delivered in June 1986; both units remain in the collection, as of January 25, 2011.
4.	KCC Chino 4 was transferred to KCC Utah Copper Division in April 1971; shipped to Utah in December 1971; renumbered to KCC-Utah 778 in March 1973; painted in red-white-blue paint scheme in May 1976 to commemorate America's Bicentennial (photograph in Extra 2200 South, Issue 64, April-May-June 1978, inside back cover); repainted back to standard yellow and black in June 1978; retired by Kennecott in November 1983; donated to Feather River Rail Society, Portola, California, in November 1985; still there in August 2010

GE 75-ton electric — 15 locomotives
B-B; 750 VDC; 900 horsepower

Road Number	Builder Date	Builder Number	Date To INCO	INCO Number	Notes
CMD 50	Mar 1940	12553	Apr 1970	INCO 122	1, 2
CMD 51	Mar 1940	12554			4
CMD 52	Mar 1940	12555	Apr 1970		1, 3
CMD 53	Mar 1940	12556			4
CMD 54	Mar 1940	12557	Apr 1970	INCO 124	1, 2
CMD 55	Mar 1940	12558			4
CMD 56	Mar 1940	12559	Apr 1970		1, 3
CMD 57	Oct 1940	12957			4
CMD 58	Apr 1941	13039			5
CMD 59	Apr 1941	13040	Apr 1970		1, 3
CMD 60	Feb 1942	15100			4
CMD 61	Aug 1942	15624			4
CMD 62	Aug 1942	15625	Apr 1970	INCO 123	1, 2
CMD 63	Dec 1950	30638	Apr 1970	INCO 126	1, 2
CMD 64	Dec 1950	30639	Apr 1970	INCO 125	1, 2

General Notes:

a.	KCC-Chino Mines Division 50-62 were built as Nevada Consolidated Copper Company 50-62; changed to Kennecott Copper Corporation, Chino Mines Division on January 1, 1943
b.	Operating voltage was 750 VDC.

Notes:

1.	KCC-Chino 50, 52, 54, 56, 59, 62, 63 and 64 (8 units) were sold to International Nickel Company (INCO), Copper Cliff, Ontario; five units were rebuilt for INCO by GE at their Phoenix Apparatus Service Shop in Glendale, Arizona. (click here for an article in Traction & Models magazine, May 1971)
2.	KCC-Chino 50, 54, 62, 63 and 64 (5 units) were renumbered to INCO 122, 124, 123, 126 and 125. (KCC-Chino to INCO numbering sequence taken from a letter from International Nickel Company to Don Strack, dated September 22, 1972, which included specific builder serial numbers)
3.	KCC-Chino 52, 56 and 59 (3 units) were sold to INCO for parts and were moved to Copper Cliff where they were later scrapped by INCO. (scrapping information taken from a letter from International Nickel Company to Don Strack, dated September 22, 1972, which included specific builder serial numbers)
4.	KCC-Chino 51, 53, 55, 57, 60 and 61 (6 units) were used by Kennecott at Santa Rita until their retirement.
5.	KCC-Chino 58 was transferred to KCC Nevada Mines Division in 1963; renumbered to KCC-Nevada 81

Baldwin VO1000 diesel-electric — 1 locomotive
B-B; 1000 horsepower; 236,000 pounds operating weight

Road Number	Previous Number	Date To Chino	Builder Date	Builder Number	KCC Nevada Number	Date To Nevada	Notes
CMD 80	B&G 801	1949	Oct 1942 Dec 1942	64731	NMD 801	23 Sep 1963	1

General Notes:

a.	KCC-Chino 80 was built as Bingham & Garfield Railway 801 (in service on January 31, 1943); used as yard switcher at Magna, Utah from 1943 until transferred in 1949 to Chino Mines Division in New Mexico as Chino Mines Division 80; transferred to Nevada Mines Division 801 in September 1963.

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1.	KCC-Chino 80

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