Steam Engine
by Sheila Ping
Title
Steam Engine
Artist
Sheila Ping
Medium
Photograph - Photoart
Description
Created in 1908, the Saginaw Timber Co. was an outfit based along the Chehalis River west of Olympia, Wash., near the Pacific Coast. The logging firm operated 40 miles of track to get logs to the riverhead, mostly using geared locomotives along its tortuous forest grades and curves. but some situations required an engine with greater speed, and the answer was No. 2, delivered by Baldwin in December 1912. The locomotive was an oil-burner, to reduce the risk of causing a forest fire. Its relatively small driving wheels could really dig in, and that “blind” center driver enabled the engine to manage 30-degree curves.2 was sidelined in 2000 in order to bring it up to new FRA steam standards and moved to Oregon coast scenic railway in 2017 where it is running to this day...
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March 31st, 2019
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