<P>I recently read that some former San Joaquin & Eastern locomotives were sent to the Philipines. Does anyone know the current status of any of these?<br>




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<P>3 truck Shay #104, 3 truck Climax #105 & #106 and 2 truck Climax #110 were all shipped to the Philippines. The Shay went in 1937 from the Red River Lumber Co. It changed hands twice overseas and may still exist, although unlikely. The 3 Climax' were distributed through the scrapper of the SJ&E and do not exist anymore. <br>

<P>There are remains of at least four Shays on the island of Negros in the Phillipines. Two were used by Insular Lumber, and were photographed along with a Baldwin 0-6-6-0 by Colin Garratt during the 1980s. Nearly any of his books on surviving steam worldwide would have a picture.<p>Two others were operated by Lopez Sugar until very recently. The Insular Lumber Shays were two-truck Shays; the Lopez Sugar engines were three-truck.<p>Supposively the scrapped remains of Red River and Gulf two-truck Shays #1 and 2 are in the woods at the Southern Forest Heritage Museum & Research Center, Long Leaf, LA. But at the time of visit, trying to view the remains was not fesible. Other parts were visible in the "locomotive graveyard."




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