Re: New Mexico Lumber - Oregon Lumber Shay #7

A friend of mine who is very knowledgeable in this area suggested a few historical corrections or additions to what has been posted in this thread. I will quote his comments regarding it's use on the New Mexico Lumber line: " the engine broke some rails when it picked up a relay of a train from another pair of engines and attempted to bring that train to the mill", "The Shay was used between McPhee and Dolores" and " the Shay pulled empties to McPhee, when there were too many cars for the lighter engine. The crew were fearful that the large engine Shay might roll over on the poor track".
He also suggested the following: "This would be a great chance to pass the word that someone in Dolores or some of the mill people might have taken some photos of the Shay within Dolores. There are likely photos in collections, and just need some questions to help pull them out. The son of the editor of the Rico has a giant collection of photos from the newspaper file and Dell McCoy almost got the use of them. Dell was visiting the former editor, Mr. Lee, of the newspaper and had him agreeable to letting Dell use the photos and the son walked in the room and told his dad to not permit the use of the photos. So far we have not seen any of Mr. Lee's photos. You might excite someone out there to look for some Shay photos".



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