Steam & Excursion > Lettered By The Dealer For Her New Owner, This Engine Ships!

One of the jobs for a used locomotive dealer was not only to find a new owner for the used engines they were selling, but also to get the engine ready for delivery to that new owner.  Often that meant painting and lettering the locomotive for it's new owner.  That is exactly what the dealer that sold this engine has done.

Built in 1917 by Baldwin this 90-ton 2-8-2 was originally ordered by the Silver Falls Lumber Co. of Silverton, Oregon as their #102.  She was the swing engine that ran the log trains from  camp down to the mill in Silverton and back.  She performed this job well, until the mill closed down permanently in 1936 which put the logging railroad  and it's locomotives out of a job.  The railroad equipment was purchased by a dealer who set about finding new homes for all the rolling stock and motive power.

It did not take the dealer long to find a new buyer who wanted this big logging Mike.  That buyer was the White River Lumber Company of Enumclaw, Washington.  Part of the deal for the sale of this locomotive called for the dealer to repaint, re-number and re-letter the engine for it's new owner.  We see the finished product parked in the Portland, Oregon yards in 1937 when H.L.Arey took this fine photo of her en route to her new owner.

It does not appear that her running gear was treated to a new paint job, but the rest of the engine did get new paint and some basic lettering.  Soon she will be towed dead-in-train to Enumclaw where she will work for another 10 years at White River Lumber before being sold to Schafer Brothers Logging Co of Brady, Washington.  At Schafer she will receive a new boiler from Baldwin, but will be retired and scrapped in 1955 when Schafer Brothers sold out to neighboring Simpson Timber Company.

This 90-ton Baldwin logging Mike looks quite presentable on this day in 1937 as she heads to her second of 3 owners.  The dealer certainly earned his sales commission.

Martin



Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/19 03:59 by LoggerHogger.

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Am I seeing the builders plate, or where the plate used to be ?

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LocoPilot750 Wrote:
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> Am I seeing the builders plate, or where the plate
> used to be ?


The builders plate is there - right where Baldwin first mounted it.

Martin



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/23 05:19 by LoggerHogger.

Is that a huge backup light on the tender or something else?  Great photo, thanks for posting.
RB

up833 Wrote:
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> Is that a huge backup light on the tender or
> something else?  Great photo, thanks for
> posting.
> RB

Even though she now sports a generator and the front headlight is electic, the backup light on the tender is an old oil style light.  It may have been converted to electricity, but you can't tell in this photo.

Martin

Those Baldwin logging Mikes are just classic.  

Although the locomotive and the sedan on Front St. are both long gone,
the Broadway Bridge and the Albers Mill building still exist today!

Larry Dodgion
Wilsonville, OR