Re: Logging Up North, SG content.

Tom, unless my eyes are deceiving me, isn't the #2 a piston valve equipped superheated 2-6-2T?

Anyway, Jack's at least partially correct, the video features the Thomsen and Clark Timber Company, started in 1923 and sold to the H.R. MacMillan Export Company in 1940. If that is correct, the Shay shown should be c/n 3279, built new for that road in 3/1925. The #2 as per the roster of Baldwin 2-6-2Ts in the Summer 2004 issue of Tall Timber Short Lines is Thomsen & Clark #2, c/n 57688, built 4/1924. The roster credits the #2 as being sold to Alberni Pacific #2, then MacMillian & Bloedel #1008. That being said, there is a third mystery locomotive in the video, right at the 10:56 mark, note this one has split saddle tanks with the slanted top, Thomsen & Clark is not credited as owning such a machine in available rosters of Baldwin 2-6-2T or 2-8-2T locomotives.

EDIT: Upon further review in the video, the mystery locomotive appears to be Bloedel, Stewart & Welsh Ltd. #4, Baldwin 2-8-2T, c/n 58687, built 11/1925. Robert Turner's Logging By Rail, The British Columbia Story, credits the #4 with working most of its early years out of BS&W's camp at Bloedel, on Menzies Bay, north of Campbell River. Upon abandonment of that line in 1953 M&B transferred it to its last rail logging show at Chemainus, where it became M&B #1066, used primarily in standby service until the regular engine was removed from service in 1968, after which it became the primary locomotive until log hauling ended, then the mill switcher until replaced by the #1055.

There is a longer version of the same video on Youtube at the following:





Jeff Moore
Elko, NV



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/11/2017 11:15PM by JDLX.