Re: 99 Years Ago April 21st on the SVRy

OLC 101 Shay CN1884 was blt. 3-25-07, 24ton. It was lettered for SVRy initially. In our archive we have a paid invoice from Lima for Shay parts billed to SVRy in 1909. It is a good research question as to how late the OLC logging engines were carried on the books of SVRy or if they actually ever were. We have a copy of a 1909 Railroad Commission of Ore. report listing 15 locomotives by number and description belonging to SVRy, with no mention of the 3 Shays working for OLC at that time. The 101 was out of service by 1941 and scrapped. SVRy/OLC bought two identical engines, the other being CN1885 OLC102. At least it's boiler survived and is on display at our McEwen yard. On the dispatchers report note that it took just over 12 hours to run the little Shay the nearly 60 miles from S.Baker to Austin. They of course had to keep out of the way of all of the other train movements so probably spent a fair amount of time sitting in sidings waiting for a time slot for the next move. Most sidings and water tanks along the SVRy had a ph. booth for communicating with the dispatcher.



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