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Red River & Beattyville Southern #2 (Ridgewood Lbr) - c/n ? - Ridgewood, Kentucky
Built on or before 1898 - 36" gauge - 18 tons - Class "B"
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Photo & data courtesy of Ed Vasser of The Climax Locomotive
Reichley Brothers #2 (Poe Valley RR) - c/n ? - Poe Mills, Pennsylvania
Built 1899 - 18 tons 301d
San Joaquin & Eastern RR #105 - c/n 1441 - Auberry, California

Built 1916-17 - Std gauge - 14 1/2" x 16" cylinders - 35" drivers - 70 tons - 3 trucks - 140,000 lbs. - 200 lb. boiler pressure. Purchased new by SJ&E on 12/13/1916 for $13,583.68 250
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San Joaquin & Eastern RR  #109 - c/n 1627 - Auberry, California
Built 10/1922 - Std gauge - 70 tons - Class C - 3 Trucks
121d 

Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection.

Scottish Logging Co. #44 - c/n ? @ Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada 
Photo taken circa 1926 

Source: H.W. Roozeboom - photographer  -  British Columbia Archives

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Shanytown Rwy #1230 - c/n 1230  @ Shantytown -  Westland, New Zealand - operational  
Built 1913 - 42" gauge - 30 tons - 2 trucks
120d
 
 Purchased by the Potate Timber Co., Matapuna NZ and shipped unassembled to New Zealand.  Assembled in the NZ Railways Petone workshops.   Later sold to Pukuwea Sawmills Ltd of Mananui, NZ where it continued to work after subsequent resale to Ellis & Burnard.  During the 1940's it was transferred to work in Mangapahei before its final commercial use as a yard shunter in Ongarue in 1962.    It was purchased for preservation in the mid 1960's and moved south to the current Shantytown site in Westland by 1969.  It began operation at Shantytown in January of 1980 where it continues its duties today. 

Upper two photos - Jeffrey Harrison 1994 
Lower two photos - Ian Tibbles 1990 

Shawnigan Lake Lumber Co. Ltd. # 1 (1st) - c/n 335 - Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Is., British Columbia, Canada
Built 7/1902 - 6' gauge - 15 tons - Class A - named "Betsy"
121d 

This "tee" boilered engine used double flanged drivers  to navigate the company's "pole road" railroad.  The "rail" was actually de-limbed tree logs ("poles") laid end to end for track.  

Identification by William Turner of the BC Forest Discovery Centre

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Preserved at the B.C. Forest Discovery Center - Duncan, British Columbia, Canada 

Skykomish Lumber Co. #1 -  c/n 692 @  Skykomish, Washington
Built 07/1906 - Std. gauge - 45 tons  Class B
901d

Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #1113 -  c/n 222  at  Atlanta, Georgia
Built 1900 - 36" gauge - 25 tons - Class B - 2 Trucks
121d

The company was a dealer of used steam locomotives and other equipment.

Southern New York RR #1 -  c/n 1681  -  Oneonta, New York  - 1949 photo
Built 3/1927 - Std gauge - 30 tons - Class B 120d

Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection

Southern New York RR #44 - c/n 948 - Oneonta, New York - taken 07/05/1951

Built 1909 - Std. gauge - 30 tons
120d

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J. G. Stern #65 - c/n 65 - destined for Madison, Arkansas
Built 10/1889 - 60" gauge - 7 tons - 4 cleated wheels
120d  - named  "The Arkansas Traveler"

Class "A" - vertical boiler - four wheel - two vertical steam cylinders.  Note the double flanged wheels  with cleats (on the tires between the wheel flanges).   The locomotive was destined for use on Stern's log "pole" railroad.

Photo from  The Willamette Locomotive  - Walter Casler collection

Sorensen Logging Co. #3 - c/n 970 - Svenson, Oregon
Built 11/1909 - ? gauge - 43 tons - Class B 120d 
Susquehanna & Eagles Mere RR #? - c/n ? - Masten, Pennsylvania

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