----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Yarger" <ryarger1@n...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] 2-8-2s
> This was Yreka Western 2-8-2 No. 19, a Baldwin stock-model 2-8-2 sold to
> various lumber and shortline railroads, plus NdeM in Mexico. Several of
> these still exist, with both YW 18 and 19 operable, also Columbia,
Chehalis
> & Cascade 15 operable. These came in both slide valve and piston valve
> (superheated) versions, and had 48-inch drivers. No commercial model is
> close, but I believe Northwest Short Line imported some in the 1960s in
> brass. The movie was filmed on the Oregon, Pacific & Eastern out of
Cottage
> Grove, Oregon, which has since been torn up.
>
> Bob Yarger, Editor
Thank you, Bob! I should have read ahead for other answers, but you made me
feel good . . . the visual memory still works! (That's important to us old
dudes)
Marshall
|