Built 08/03/1907 - Std gauge - 10"x12" cylinders - 29½" drivers - 37 tons - 2 trucks
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Minnesota Historical Society
/ Location No. HD5.33 p13 /
Negative No. 5000
Built 12/06/1902 - 36" gauge - 6"x10" cylinders - 22" drivers - 10 tons - 2 trucks - named "Kalbach"
Note the two outward positioned cylinder steam chests with the single cover plate for both. Unlike the Willamette locomotives whose cylinders were positioned outward, very few Shays employed this design.
Photo posting permission was granted by the
Allen
County Historical Society courtesy of Dan
Rowe.
Dan also supplied all the information.
Kalbach's railroad here utilized wood rail. Strap iron was attached to the top on curves and grades.301d
Built 04/21/1891 - 36" gauge - 6" x 10" cylinders -10 tons - 2 trucks - named "Achilles"
Note the two outward positioned cylinder steam chests with the single cover plate for both. Unlike the Willamette locomotives whose cylinders were positioned outward, very few Shays employed this design.
Photo posting permission was granted by the Allen County Historical Society courtesy of Dan Rowe.
Dan also supplied all the information.
Built 02/05/1913 - Std. gauge - 18"x20" cylinders - 48" drivers - 160 tons (286,700 lbs) - 3 trucks - maximum tractive effort 74,400 lbs.
It was the heaviest Shay that Lima ever built. It also had the distinction of being the only one built with this cylinder size.
Photo posting permission was granted by the
Allen
County Historical Society courtesy of Dan
Rowe.
Dan also supplied all the information.
Built 04/12/1920 - Std. gauge - 12"x12" cylinders - 32 " drivers - 65 tons - 3 trucks
Built 09/25/1920 - Std. gauge - cylinders 11"x12" - 32" drivers - 50 tons - 2 trucks
The company's only standard gauge Shay.
Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection.
Lettering at rear reads "The Shay Locomotive For Logging, Mining, Switching, C. & C."
Note the two outward positioned cylinder steam chests. Unlike the Willamette locomotives whose cylinders were positioned outward, very few Shays employed this design.
| Photo source: | "Minnesota Logging Railroads" by Frank A. King, Golden West Books, San Marino CA, 1981. - U.S. Forest Service
collection. Provided courtesy of Christian Halpaap of Hohenhameln-Bruendeln, Germany |
Sold later to St. Croix Land & Lumber Co. of Wildwood, Wisconsin. This was the only Shay manufactured with a "Joy" valve gear. (1)
Source: (1) Dan Rowe
Preserved at the Allen County Museum in Lima, Ohio
Posting permission for this builder's photo was granted by the Allen County Historical Society courtesy of Dan Rowe of the Dripping Springs Locomotive Works .... purveyors of fine live steam Shays. Dan also supplied all the information.
Built 08/30/1904 - Std. gauge - 10"x12" cylinders - 29½" drivers - 37 tons - 2 trucks
Photo by Dave Cremins
Built 11/22/1920 - Std gauge - 13"x15" cylinders - 36" drivers - 80 tons - 3 trucks