This 3 truck Shay engine was built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1927 for the 36" narrow gauge Swayne Lumber Co., in Oroville, California. It was sold in 1940 to West Side Lumber Co based in Tuolumne, CA. It was eventually sold again to the Georgetown Loop Railroad and ran passenger cars between the old mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume in Colorado.
The engine was transferred to the Colorado Railroad Museum in 2004 and is one of the active locomotives that hauls passenger trains on the museum’s “Ride the Rails” days. It is treat watching the three vertically mounted cylinders drive a cam shaft that then connects to a horizontal drive shaft, which then transfers the power to the drive wheels.
