Re: My favorite and a question

Bret,
Oh come on Bret, this needs to be out on the board, otherwise I tend to forget what gets said in rather short order. First off, I should have made a clearer reference, but from the get go, the Sumpter Valley existed to serve the Oregon Lumber Company principally. And like you said the companies were practically identical, especially board wise, but were independent companies that were just the same, sorta Then there are the steam lines. What I've been told is that the lines were used mostly in winter to thaw out switches and such, but it would make sense that they were used in summer for spot fires and such, with wood burners I'm sure that was an all too common occurence. The driver size on the 19 and 20 is actually fairly common for narrow gauge, the reason the locomotives are so slippery has far more to do with the cylinders being too large. With the water towers, I was under the impression that the tanks used on the Sumpter Valley main were only around 9000 gallons, I must have them confused with the OLC tank at McEwen.
Well that about does it for me, I think there was something else I said in my previous post that was way off in left field, but I forgot what it was. So anyway, I guess the only thing I got right in that post was that the tank came from the Bates area, and my name was spelled correctly " />
Talk to Ya Soon, Taylor