Re: shay locamotive myth

lindsey Wrote:
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> We are looking for any information about the
> existence this shay and of its known whereabouts
> or anything that might be of help in finding out
> if this is a myth. We are planning to search for
> it this summer. If you have any information we
> would love to hear from you.

Lindsey,

Get in touch with Sean Bautista at Hillcrest Shops in Reedley (HillcrestShops at AOL dot Com), he used to have a cabin up at Hume and regularly would go out on the Hume-Bennett line keeping an eye out for the engine.

As I recall he thinks he found the location where the engine probably slid down the mountain side, however, that face of the mountain has collapsed several times over the decades and he believes the engine to have been buried. The instability of the mountain is probably one of the reasons they never recovered the engine.

Of course as fun as it may be to talk about, this is all just speculation.


Cheers,

Curtis F.