LE BARON
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AL&TCo 2 trk Shay #585 (b/n585) on a cold, windy day somewhere on the Woody Mountain line.
Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?
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LE BARON
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An upside down CDN Tire logo per chance?
Photoshop would be my guess.....
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While this may look like just another steam locomotive in transit, when you see who she is and the date of the photo, the rest of the story unfolds.
In this photo we see Georgia-Pacific #9 in Portland, Oregon on September 6, 1960 on her way to star in the movie "Ring Of Fire". #9 pulled the very last log train on the G-P logging railroad out of Siletz, Oregon just a few months earlier on December 31, 1959. She was still in fully operable condition when she was sold to MGM for use in the final scenes in their movie Ring OF Fire.
In this photo #9 is on her way from Toledo to Vernonia where the first scenes of the movie's conclusion will be shot. At Vernonia, she will be taken the Long-Bell Lumber shops where her oil bunker will be cut off and the tender from Long-Bell 2-6-2 #105 will be added. The oil bunker of #105's tender will be removed to make room for the cameras that will shoot actors David Janssen and Joyce Taylor as they operate #9 through the fire scenes at the end of the movie.
When the shooting at Vernonia is over, #9 will be taken up to Simpson Timber Company's logging railroad out of Shelton, Washington for the final scene of the movie when #9 and her train of coaches plunges off a burning trestle over the Wynoochee River.
In this photo we see Georgia-Pacific #9 in Portland, Oregon on September 6, 1960 on her way to star in the movie "Ring Of Fire". #9 pulled the very last log train on the G-P logging railroad out of Siletz, Oregon just a few months earlier on December 31, 1959. She was still in fully operable condition when she was sold to MGM for use in the final scenes in their movie Ring OF Fire.
In this photo #9 is on her way from Toledo to Vernonia where the first scenes of the movie's conclusion will be shot. At Vernonia, she will be taken the Long-Bell Lumber shops where her oil bunker will be cut off and the tender from Long-Bell 2-6-2 #105 will be added. The oil bunker of #105's tender will be removed to make room for the cameras that will shoot actors David Janssen and Joyce Taylor as they operate #9 through the fire scenes at the end of the movie.
When the shooting at Vernonia is over, #9 will be taken up to Simpson Timber Company's logging railroad out of Shelton, Washington for the final scene of the movie when #9 and her train of coaches plunges off a burning trestle over the Wynoochee River.
LE BARON
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What a shame that the photographer here was not able to fit this entire train in his view finder. Written on the negative sleeve was the notation "Six engines on one train leaving Manitou, Colorado, May 28, 1939. Really? Six engines? Yes, that was known to happen back in steam days.
The train her is on the Midland Terminal Railroad and certainly has it's share of grade ahead which account for the multiple helper assigned behind 2-8-0 #55 on the head-end.
LE BARON
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Kelly Alma “oiling” (another posed PR photo, Alma is clearly not oiling anything!) Union Pacific steam locomotive UP 7857, a Mountain MT-2 Class, 4-8-2, February 1928.
NOTICE the air horns ahead of the stack. Built by The American Strombos Co., air horns were an experiment, testing to see how much fuel they saved because they operated on compressed air, instead of the fuel-burning steam that steam whistles used regularly.
NOTICE the air horns ahead of the stack. Built by The American Strombos Co., air horns were an experiment, testing to see how much fuel they saved because they operated on compressed air, instead of the fuel-burning steam that steam whistles used regularly.
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