Steam & Excursion > A Cabbage Stacked Western Logging Mallet-Impossible!

Most of us think of Cabbage Stacked locomotives as existing only on wood burning engines of the deep south. However there were a number of Western logging engines that sported such stack in the west. The largest one we see here in the form of Potlatch Lumber 2-6-6-2T #24.

Built by Baldwin in March of 1926 for service out of Elk River, Idaho she was originally constructed as a coal burner. This meant she would need a spark arresting stack for the summer months. Shipped out in her cab from the factory was this cabbage stack seen here.

She was one of only 3 full saddle tank logging Mallets turned out by Baldwin. #24 was later converted to oil burning and that caused the cabbage stack to be retired. In 1934 she was sold to Weyerheauser Timber Co. for service out of Longview, Washington. She was retired in the 1950's and put on display at Longview for a time. Later she was donated to the railroad museum in Snoqualmie, WA where she sits today.

Again, there were a number of cabbage stacked logging lokies in the West. Can you name the others?


Martin



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 08/19/14 06:43 by LoggerHogger.

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Hammond Lumber had a 2-6-6-2T locomotive.

Bloedel Donovan Lumber had another.

The articulated tank engine idea did not seem to survive when the locomotives were sold to new owners. The Hammond loco and both Uintah narrow gauge 2-6-6-2T locomotives were converted to tender engines by their new owners.

I know about these by accident, mostly. I wonder if I can find photos of the Potlatch unit on the Elk River branch rubbing noses with MILW 2-6-6-2 steamers.


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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/19/14 07:12 by fbe.

None of those had cabbage stacks.

Martin

LoggerHogger Wrote:
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> None of those had cabbage stacks.
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> Martin

Oops, feeble mind harvested the wrong data from your post. The articulated tank engines had to be just about as rare as cabbage stacks, though.

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I bet that thing was a pain in the butt to fire of wood.

She never was wood fired. She was built to fire on coal. Later she was converted to oil.

Martin

LoggerHogger Wrote:

> Again, there were a number of cabbage stacked
> logging lokies in the West. Can you name the
> others?

How about old 3 Dollar Bob?

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,3341843

Cheating and searching the static photography library for "Loggerhogger cabbage" also turns up:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,3198724
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,2823991,2823992#2823992
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,2788040

Robert Dollar #3 does not have a cabbage stack. Those are round in shape and contour and not sharp edged like what #3 has.

Martin

LoggerHogger Wrote:

> Robert Dollar #3 does not have a cabbage stack.

How is it properly categorized? Balloon? Diamond?

#3's stack would generally be referred to as a diamond stack, though in her case it is a very short diamond stack.

Martin

On Vancouver Island in B.C., Bloedel, Stewart and Welch's Baldwin 2-8-2T #4 had a cabbage stack as well as Campbell River Timber's two 2-8-2T's.
Pete