Steam & Excursion > Only 3 Of These Locomotives Were Ever Built And She Is The Last!

It's August, 1928 and in the Baldwin Locomotive Works yard at Eddystone, Pennsylvania we see one of the 40 articulateds that Baldwin built for the logging industry of the Pacific Northwest.  With her headlight and cab boarded up for shipment, this logging mallet will soon be on her way to her new owner.

She is Saginaw Timber Co.'s new #5.  She is a near twin to their #4 turned out by Baldwin in 1925.  These 2 tank mallets will be 2 of only 3 full saddle tank logging mallets ever to be built.  The idea behind the full saddle tank rather than the more normal split saddle tanks was to reduce the width of the tank to increase visibility for the engine crew while still preserving adequate water capacity for the locomotive.

While the 2 Saginaw full-saddle tank mallets would not survive scrapping after they both were later sold to new owners, the 3rd such example of Baldwin's full saddle tank mallets would survive and even be restored so she runs today.  That locomotive is former Weyerhaeuser Timber #108 that was built in 1926 for the Potlach Lumber Co. of Potlach, Idaho.  She was brought back into operational condition at the Black Hills Central Railroad who first started running her in August of this year.

If you want to read more about these and the other logging articulateds built by Baldwin, watch for our new book, "Timber Titans" due out at the first of 2021 from White River Productions.

Martin



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 11/12/20 00:36 by LoggerHogger.

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There we go Martin didnt have to dig for your answer about the book. Boyd in Chiloquin

Great photos and history Martin, thanks! I am way pumped about your new book....can't wait!

-Tom