Re: Thanks! Very interesting.

Thanks all for your patience with the std. ga. content. There is a bit further N.G. connectedness. The original large mill at Wallowa which lasted under several owners till '64 was built by C.W.Nibley. It was acutally Nibley-Mimnaugh Lbr. Co. Not sure who or what Mimnaugh was. Lumber baron Nibley was one of the principal stockholder/officers in Oregon Lbr. Co. and Sumpter Valley Railway. His logging rr. out of Wallowa was std. ga., but this is where a freind of mine thinks a 25?ton Heisler may have made it's way from there to the Sumpter Valley country and Narrow Gauged. Not sure of details or his evidence. Also Nibley had at one time his own lbr. company at Whitney with N.G logging engines and woods trackage. He had at one time a mill and logging rr. in the Blue Mtns. I think near Meacham. One of his std. ga. engines from that line was transfered to the operations around the Sumpter valley and converted to N.G. I think this was a 50 ton Heisler. Nibley also I think started the mill at Pondosa which had a std. ga. logging rr and connecting shortline to the OWRR&N/UP at Tellocasset(sp?). This was the Big Crk. and Tellocasset Rr. There is reference in an old article that the SVRy backshop did engine work for this std. ga. rr.