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| Author: | bobyar2001 [ Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Westside No. 2 |
Narrow gauge Heisler, shown here in the Westside Lumber Company yard at Tuolumne, California in 1940. This engine was retired a bit earlier than the other Westside locomotives. It sits today in a Tuolumne park, missing numerous parts, but it does have a local group who attend to it occasionally. http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/wlc2.jpg Another view: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/wlc2a.jpg |
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| Author: | Ed Kelley [ Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Westside No. 2 |
At least the #3 is still operating; and in the past few years, received a new 3-chime whistle after decades with the one-note. I recently found a link showing some video clips of the old girl in recent years. Ironically, her road number at Roaring Camp is 2! The WSL #3 spent several years as a standard-gauge locomotive switching the mill. When she arrived at Roaring Camp in 1963, she made the last steam run to date over part of the SP line towards Santa Cruz. Supposedly, the freshest soot in one of the tunnels was #3 marking her new territory. http://www.surfsedge.com/TTBWRR.htm Videos I understand there were some work days in September to get the #2 presentable in Tuolumne...she was in BAD shape. A Pickering 2-T Shay is on display down the road in Sonora as well. In 2001 as I headed out to visit Kahuku:
In the 60s, lettered as Big Trees Flume & Lumber Co. #1 for some sort of TV commercial I believe: http://www.bjwrr.com/ontrack/Images/large-tuolumne.jpg On the now-destroyed Spring Canyon "Corkscrew" trestle:
Double-heading with "Dixiana" (ex-Coal Processing #2593, 2T Shay) [/url]
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