Peggy the Shay locomotive LbNA #37602 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jan 17, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | ??? |
| County: | Mystery |
| State: | Oregon |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | bedlamite9  |
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| Found by: | ??? |
| Last found: | Jan 17, 2008 |
| Status: | Fa |
| Last edited: | Jan 17, 2008 |
Peggy is a 42-ton, Shay-geared locomotive who has hauled an estimated billion feet of logs in her lifetime.
Built in 1909 by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, she was shipped around Cape Horn to Seattle and a few years later purchased by the Stimson Lumber Company. Peggy spent her life working first in forests of Washington and then Oregon. She survived the Tillamook Burn and was retired from logging in 1950.
Shay locomotives are distinctive in their vertical rather than horizontal cylinders. You can find this letterbox nestled behind Peggy’s middle cylinder right about where it meets the crankshaft.
Built in 1909 by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, she was shipped around Cape Horn to Seattle and a few years later purchased by the Stimson Lumber Company. Peggy spent her life working first in forests of Washington and then Oregon. She survived the Tillamook Burn and was retired from logging in 1950.
Shay locomotives are distinctive in their vertical rather than horizontal cylinders. You can find this letterbox nestled behind Peggy’s middle cylinder right about where it meets the crankshaft.