This logging Mikado, a Baldwin product of 1922, has been a longtime fixture at Avery Park in Corvallis, OR. The smokebox had been decorated with a wreath for Christmas.
J. Neils Lumber Shay No. 5 is in the final stages of restoration inside the IRM steam shop. Once a staple of the operating fleet, the Shay hasn't been under steam in nearly two decades.
The headlight of the G 3/3 # 5 is newly lit by the driver. The tiny 0-6-0 steamlocomotive, built by SACM Grafenstaden in the Alsace/France in 1890, ran for the Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher Railway (... (more)