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Lackawanna Lumber Co. #10 - s/n 687 near Cross Forks, Pennsylvania
Built 01/24/1902 - Std gauge - 14½" x 12" cylinders - 36" drivers - 65 tons - 3 trucks

La Moine Lumber & Trading Co. #2 - s/n 1562 near La Moine, California
Built 01/27/1906 - 36" gauge - 10" x 12" cylinders - 29½" drivers - 42 tons - 2 trucks

Lamm Lumber Co. #1 - s/n 2722 @ Eugene Yard in Eugene, Oregon
Built 10/15/1913 - std gauge - 10" x 12" cylinders - 29½" drivers - 42 tons - 2 trucks

The company had two Shay's with the road number #1. This particular one was used in their Chinchallo, Oregon operations.
Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection

Lamm Lumber Co. #1 - s/n 798 @ Modoc Point, Oregon
Built 04/28/1903 - std gauge - 8" x 12" - 26½" drivers - 28 tons - 2 trucks

The company had two Shay's with the road number #1. This particular one was used in their Modoc Point, Oregon operations.
Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection

Leona Mills Lumber Co. #1 - s/n 2559 @ Leona, Oregon
Built 6-13-1913 - Std gauge - 3 8" x 12" cylinders - 29" drivers - 32 tons - 2 trucks
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Photo from the George B. Abdill (Douglas County, Oregon) collection.

Lima Shay Demonstrator #126 - s/n 126 - near Cadillac, Michigan - circa 1884.
Lettering at rear reads "The Shay Locomotive For Logging, Mining, Switching, C. & C."

Note the three 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

Lima Locomotive & Machine Co. #450 - s/n 450 - Lima, Ohio
Built 11/18/1893 - Std gauge - 11" x 12" cylinders - 32½" drivers - 45 tons - 2 trucks

The company displayed the locomotive at the 1893 "World's Columbian Exposition" in Chicago, Illinois

Lima Stone Co. #10 - s/n 3288 - built for the Lima, Ohio company on 8/11/1925 - 36" gauge - 8" x 8" cylinders - 29" dia. wheels.
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.

Little River Redwood Co. #1 - s/n 1952
Built 10/19/1907 - Std. gauge - 12" x 12" cylinders - 36" drivers - 60 tons - 2 trucks

The company's base of operations was Crannell, California

Lobdell-Emery Manufacturing Co. (Onaway & Northern Michigan Railway) #2 - s/n 1987 @ Onaway, Michigan
Built 07-06-1907 - Std. gauge - 3 10" x 12" cylinders - 29.5" drivers - 37 tons - 2 trucks

The note with the photo states this is Lobdell & Bailey RR #2
Photo by K.Gus Smarey of Suttons Bay, Michigan

Long-Bell - Fidelity Lumber Co. #7 - s/n 3059 destined for Doucette, Texas
Built 02/12/1920 - Std gauge - 10" x 12" cylinders - 29½" drivers - 42 tons - 2 trucks

Long-Bell Lumber Co. #5 - s/n 3249
Built 01/22/1924 - std gauge - 11" x12" - 32" drivers - 50 tons - 2 trucks

Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection.

Long-Bell Lumber Co. #103 - s/n 3181 near Keasey Oregon in June 1957
Built 06/21/1922 - Std gauge - 12" x 15" cylinders - 36" drivers - 70 tons - 3 trucks

Long-Bell Lumber Co. #107 - s/n 1812 near Portland, Oregon on 6/6/1949
Built 03/04/1907 - std gauge - 13½" x 15" - 36" drivers - 80 tons - 3 trucks

Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection

Long-Bell Lumber Co. #94 - s/n 2943 @ Tennant, California in June, 1942
Built 10/04/1917 - Std gauge - 12" x 12" cylinders - 32" drivers - 65 tons - 3 trucks

Photo courtesy of the Marc Reusser collection.

Long-Bell Lumber Co. #102 - s/n 2490 @ McGregor, Oregon on July 17, 1957
Built 02/14/1912 - Std. gauge - 10" x 12" cylinders - 29½" drivers - 42 tons - 2 trucks

Long-Bell Lumber Co. #1008 - s/n 3254 @ Ryderwood, Washington in the early 1950's before 1954.
Built 04/11/1924 - Std gauge - 14½" x 15" cylinders - 36" drivers - 90 tons - 3 trucks

A. A. Low #6 - s/n 918 - at Biddeford, Maine - Preserved
Built 08/30/1904 - Std. gauge - 10"x12" cylinders - 29½" drivers - 37 tons - 2 trucks

Photo by Dave Cremins

Lyman Timber Co. #5 - s/n 3143 - Destined for Hamilton, Washington

Built 11/22/1920 - Std gauge - 13"x15" cylinders - 36" drivers - 80 tons - 3 trucks

Lyman Timber Co. #6 - s/n 3038 - near Hamilton, Washington
Built 10-10-1919 - std gauge - 3 14½" x 15" cylinders - 36" drivers - 90 tons - 3 trucks

¹^.Data and/or s/n provided courtesy of Dan Rowe of the Dripping Springs Locomotive Works

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