Between the 1910s to the 1950s the Standard Stoker Co. manufactured stoker engines, which are small auxiliary engines on locomotives that were primarily used to transfer coal from the tender to the firebox, and may also be used to provide power for other application that may be needed when the main locomotive engine is not powered up.

Information Sources

• Keith Rucker YouTube video showing a manual from this maker. Complete video series on restoring a steam stoker engine from Standard Stoker Co.
• 1928-02-11 Railway Age page 382.

  Standard Stoker Company, Inc. Buys Assets of Locomotive Stoker Company

  On February 1 the Standard Stock Company, Inc., New York, purchased and took over the patents of the Locomotive Stoker Company covering stokers and coal pushers. There were included also in the purchase certain assets necessary to operating under the patents, including the inventories of finished materials and goods in process and the fixed assets of the plant of the Locomotive Stoker Company at Pittsburgh.

  The Standard Stoker Company, Inc, will manufacture at its Pittsburgh plant and will supply without interruption, the stokers and coal pushers, and the parts for these devices, which have heretofore been manufactured by the Locomotive Stoker Company.

  The Erie plant of the Standard Stoker Company, Inc., will continue to supply the stokers and repair parts of the same types as hitherto.