Steam & Excursion > One Of My Favorite Logging Lokies In Color And In Great Action!

I have always loved the MEDCO logging railroad operation out of Medford, Oregon. Having gone to college in nearby Ashland I spent my free time tracking down the old MEDCO grades and equipment left in the woods.

MEDCO's Baldwin 2-8-2 #3 has always been a favorite logging engine for me.While I have seen her a number of times and ridden in her cab more than once at the California-Western, I would have loved to seen her operation out of Butte Falls, OR on the MEDCO line.

Here is a nice color action shot of her in the early 1950's on a trestle out of Butte Falls as she speeds toward the log dump at the Medford mill.

What a beauty!

Martin

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Old MEDCo #3 has had a very long career and now has spent more time pulling passengers on the California coast than her time in Oregon hauling logs.  She ran a short excursion season this year out of Fort Bragg and is now being torn down for her second FRA 15-year inspection.  According to the shop guys I spoke with, old #45 will get whatever she needs and they hope to have her up and running again for the 2016 summer season.

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Both MEDCo and Calif-Western have really gotten their money's worth out of this 91-year old Bladwin!

Martin

Bring the one from Campo to be restored also

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Here are a couple of pictures my late father took of Californis Western 45 in the Fall of 67

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Red tires and rods are ugly.

I like the fist picture in black!
Luke

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Egads, Martin,

I have the very same slide offered by the Universal Slide Company in Beverly Hills back in tye 1960s.
They wern't the greatest qulity bu they looked good.

--Jim Baker,Whittier, CA