Steam & Excursion > A Clean Looking Lokie Working The Landing-Polson Logging #191!

Not ail logging outfits allowed their steam locomotives to become covered with dirt and soot from pilot to pilot.  Last month I showed you an example of such an engine working for Weyerheauser Timber out of Klamath Falls, Oregon.

At the other end of the spectrum we have the Polson Logging Company of Hoguiam, Washington.  This outfit was known in it's later years for the care and attention paid to the up-keep of it's logging lokies.  An example of this attention is shown in this photo taken in the early 1940's of Pacific Coast Shay #191 at a landing on the Camp 3 line.

In the early years of Polson Logging their engines were definitely allowed to become grimy and dirty from the chores of logging.  The early photos show typical hard working engines as found in the Pacific Northwest.  This all changed by the late 1930's into the 1940's when the care and upkeep of these engines became a much more high priority task than it had been previously.

The paint job we see here is not the factory paint for #191.  She has been repainted and re-lettered since leaving Lima.  The care and attention given the re-paint is quite evident here. 

Even after Polson sold out to Rayonier in the mid-1940's this level of attention continued on with Rayonier and these same engines were always a sparkling example of well maintained motive power.


Martin



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/24/15 04:40 by LoggerHogger.

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The Shay is cleaner than my pickup truck!