Weber Fire Company of Stockton, CA, once owned an Amoskeag steamer, built in Manchester, NH. This signal lamp, which originally burned whale-oil, once perched atop the steamer's air chamber, and is now all that remains of the Amoskeag.
One of the rarest fire engines ever used in Stockton was this Babcock chemical engine, with two copper soda-and-acid chemical tanks placed vertically (rather than trhe traditional horizontal tank) on the chassis. Two horses hauled this engine to fires.
Exempt Fire Company of Stockton once used this huge Button hand pumper, made in Waterford, NY.
Weber Fire Company of Stockton, CA, once used this 1862 Neafie & Levy steamer, and fitted it with a new boiler in 1882. It served Stockton for nearly 50 years before a new motorized fire engine replaced it. Neafie & Levy was the successor to Reanie & Neafie of Philadelphia, PA, so the serial number 28 indicates the combined production of both companies up to that time. The two oldest surviving steam fire engines in the world were both made by Reanie & Neafie: an 1858 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and an 1859 at the CIGNA Insurance Company museum in Philadelphia, PA. Marysville, CA, still owns an 1861 Silsby steamer (made in Seneca Falls, NY), making this 1862 Neafie & Levy the fourth oldest steam fire engine known to survive today.
