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The Shay locomotive is a
geared steam locomotive that originated and was primarily used in
North America
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. The locomotives were built to the patents of
Ephraim Shay
Ephraim Shay (July 17, 1839 – April 19, 1916) was an American merchant, entrepreneur and self-taught railroad engineer who worked in the state of Michigan. He designed the first Shay locomotive and patented the type. He licensed it for manufactu ...
, who has been credited with the popularization of the concept of a ''geared steam locomotive''. Although the design of Ephraim Shay's early locomotives differed from later ones, there is a clear line of development that joins all Shays. Shay locomotives were especially suited to logging, mining and industrial operations and could operate successfully on steep or poor quality track.
Development
Ephraim Shay
Ephraim Shay (July 17, 1839 – April 19, 1916) was an American merchant, entrepreneur and self-taught railroad engineer who worked in the state of Michigan. He designed the first Shay locomotive and patented the type. He licensed it for manufactu ...
(1839–1916), was a schoolteacher, a clerk in an
American Civil War
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hospital, a civil servant, a
logger, a
merchant
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, a
railway
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owner, and an inventor who lived in
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...
.
In the 1860s, he became a logger and wanted a better way to move logs to the
mill
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than on winter snow sleds. He built his own
tramway in 1875, on gauge
track
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on wooden
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, allowing him to log all year round. Two years later he developed the idea of having an engine sit on a
flatcar
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with a
boiler
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, gears, and
trucks
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that could pivot. The first Shay only had two cylinders and the front truck was mounted normally while the rear truck was fixed to the frame and could not swivel, much as normal drivers on a locomotive. He mounted the diameter by tall boiler centered on the car with the water tank over the front trucks and with an engine supplied by William Crippen mounted crossways over the rear trucks. Shay experimented first with a chain drive from the engine through the floor to the truck axle. It is not known if he powered one or both axles, but he soon found that the chain drive was not practical and he next tried a belt drive. It did not take long for the idea to become popular.
Shay applied for and was issued a patent for the basic idea in 1881. He patented an improved geared truck for his engines in 1901.
Lima Locomotive Works
Lima Locomotive Works was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company took the most distinctive part of its name from its main shop's location in Lima, Ohio. The shops were located between ...
of
Lima, Ohio
Lima ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwest Ohio along Interstate 75 in Ohio, Interstate 75 approximately north of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, southwest of Toledo, Ohio, T ...
built Ephraim Shay's prototype engine in 1880.
Prior to 1884, all the Shays Lima produced weighed each and had just two cylinders. In 1884, they delivered the first 3-cylinder (Class B) Shay, and in 1885, the first 3-truck (Class C) Shay. The success of the Shay led to a major expansion and reorganization of the Lima company. When Lima first received the Shay idea it was not impressed, until John Carnes influenced the company to use the idea, resulting in the classic Shay design.
In 1903, Lima could claim that it had delivered the "heaviest locomotive on drivers in the world", the first 4-truck (class D) Shay, weighing . This was built for the
El Paso Rock Island Line from
Alamogordo, New Mexico to Cox Canyon, away over winding curves and
grades
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of up to 6
%. The use of a two-truck tender was necessary because the poor water quality along the line meant that the locomotive had to carry enough water for a round trip.
Lewis E. Feightner, working for Lima, patented improved engine mounting brackets and a superheater for the Shay in 1908 and 1909.
After the basic Shay patents had expired,
Willamette Iron and Steel Works
Willamette Iron Works (also known as Willamette Iron and Steel Company or WISCO) was a general foundry and machine business established in 1865 in Portland, Oregon, originally specializing in the manufacture of steamboat boilers and engines. In ...
of
Portland, Oregon
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, manufactured Shay-type locomotives, and in 1927, Willamette obtained a patent on an improved geared
truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, but the vast majority feature body-on-frame construction ...
for such locomotives. These became known as
Willamette locomotive
The Willamette locomotive was a geared steam locomotive of the Shay locomotive type, built by the Willamette Iron and Steel Works of Portland, Oregon. After key patents on the Shay locomotive had expired, it was possible for other manufactur ...
s. Since "Shay" was a trademark of Lima, strictly speaking it is incorrect to refer to locomotives manufactured by Willamette and others as "Shays". Six Shay Patent locomotives, known as Henderson-style Shays, were built by the
Michigan Iron Works
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in
Cadillac, Michigan
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.
Overview
According to Lima Locomotive Works in 1925, "The Shay Geared Locomotive has a wide and varied range of service, being used in industrial, quarry, contractors, logging, mining and plantation work; (also on branch lines and mountain sections of trunk-line railways). It is especially adapted to industrial railroads in and around large manufacturing plants. Its value as a switching engine is due to the rapidity with which it will accelerate a load and to its ability to spot cars in a minimum of time. It is designed to take any curve on which standard cars can be operated."
The company emphasized its performance on "steep grades", "uneven track", and "track too light for a direct engine of the same axle load".
[
Shay locomotives had regular fire-tube boilers offset to the left to provide space for, and counterbalance the weight of, a two or three cylinder "motor," mounted vertically on the right with longitudinal ]drive shaft
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s extending fore and aft from the crankshaft at wheel axle height. These shafts had universal joint
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s and square sliding prismatic joint
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s to accommodate the swiveling trucks. Each axle was driven by a separate bevel gear
Bevel gears are gears where the axes of the two shafts intersect and the tooth-bearing faces of the gears themselves are conically shaped. Bevel gears are most often mounted on shafts that are 90 degrees apart, but can be designed to work at oth ...
, with no side rods.
The strength of these engines lies in the fact that all wheels, including, in some engines, those under the tender, are driven so that all the weight develops tractive effort
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. A high ratio of piston strokes to wheel revolutions allowed them to run at partial slip, where a conventional rod engine would spin its drive wheels and burn rails, losing all traction.
Shay locomotives were often known as ''sidewinders'' or ''stemwinders'' for their side-mounted drive shafts. Most were built for use in the United States, but many were exported, to about 30 countries, either by Lima, or after they had reached the end of their usefulness in the US.
Classes
Approximately 2,770 Shay locomotives were built by Lima in four classes, from , between 1878 and 1945.
* Class A: two cylinders, two trucks. Weight between .
* Class B: three cylinders, two trucks. Weight between tons.
* Class C: three cylinders, three trucks. Weight between .
* Class D: three cylinders, four trucks. Weight of . These were no more powerful than Class C, but had greater fuel and water capacity, resulting in improved adhesion.
Two Shays were built with two cylinders and three trucks.
Four Shays, gauge, were built left-handed, all special ordered by the Sr. Octaviano B. Cabrera Co., San Luis de la Paz
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, Mexico.
Survivors
115 Shays survive today, some a combination of parts of two Shays. Herewith a partial list:
* The Yosemite Lumber Company's #4 Shay is partially restored and is on continuous display at the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum in Arnold, California. It worked at the top of the El Portal Incline, bringing sugar pine
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logs to the top of the incline, where the loaded rail cars were lowered about 3000 feet in a mile and a half, picked up by a different railroad and taken to the mill.
* The Arizona State Railroad Museum
The Arizona State Railroad Museum Foundation (ASRM) is a non-profit organization that primarily preserves historic railroad equipment that was once used throughout the state of Arizona. It was founded in 2009, and it is located in Williams, Arizon ...
foundation owns former Anaconda Copper Mining Shay No. 5, which was previously stored in Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
. Although it never operated in the state of Arizona
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, it was acquired by the ASRM to represent the Shays used by various logging and short line railroads in Northern Arizona
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, such as the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company. It has been displayed by the Grand Canyon Hotel in Williams since 2014.
* Restored and on continuous outdoor display in downtown Cadillac, Michigan for free viewing is a Cadillac–Soo Lumber Company locomotive with tender. The official Michigan historical marker by it explains much.
* The oldest surviving Shay, serial number 122, built in 1884, is currently displayed in Redding California, at Turtle Bay Exploration Park
Turtle Bay Exploration Park, located in Redding, California, is a non-profit 300-acre gathering place featuring the Sundial Bridge, a museum, forestry and wildlife center, arboretum and botanical gardens. The park is located at gateway to the ...
.
* The oldest operational Shay is located at the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, an long heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and ope ...
in West Virginia as their locomotive No. 5. It was first bought in 1905 by the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. at Cass. Number 5 is in fact still running on its original rail since it first ran in 1905.
* The Allen County Museum
The Allen County Museum is located in the city of Lima, the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. Occupying a half city block, the museum campus includes the main museum building, a log house, the MacDonell House (a Victorian mans ...
in Lima, Ohio
Lima ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwest Ohio along Interstate 75 in Ohio, Interstate 75 approximately north of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, southwest of Toledo, Ohio, T ...
displays a two-truck, 3 foot gauge Shay which had served a local quarry, and is probably the survivor nearest to the factory where it was built in 1925. It was rescued in 1953 only hours before being cut up for scrap, and was restored at no cost by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton
The Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1951. Originally located in Philadelphia, it moved to nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania, in the early 20th century. The company was for decades t ...
.
* The Camino-Placerville & Lake Tahoe No. 2, a three-truck Shay, is on display at the Travel Town Museum
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in Los Angeles, California
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.
* The Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton, California, operates the No. 1 ''Dixiana'' (Class B, s/n 2593 of 1912) and the No. 7 ''Sonora'' (Class C, s/n 2465 of 1911).
* Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
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preserves a class C Shay, Sierra Railroad
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No. 2, and occasionally runs it as part of its excursion trains.
* The Colorado Railroad Museum
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The museum was established in 1959 to preserve a record of ...
holds two Shays, Nos. 12 and 14, which operated on the Georgetown Loop Railroad
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This tourist train runs between the communities of Georgetown and S ...
for about 20 years.
* The New Jersey Museum of Transportation
at Allaire State Park
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is restoring the 36-inch gauge Ely-Thomas Lumber Company No. 6. This locomotive ran on the Pine Creek Railroad
The New Jersey Museum of Transportation is a museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, and operation of historic railroad equipment. The organization runs excursion trains on a narrow gauge tourist railroad named the ''Pine Creek Railroa ...
from around 1955 through 2002, when it was taken out of service for boiler work.
* The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad
The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSPRR) is a historic narrow gauge railroad with two operating steam train locomotives located near Fish Camp, California, in the Sierra National Forest near the southern entrance to Yosemite National ...
owns and operates two former West Side Lumber Company
The West Side Lumber Company railway was the last of the narrow-gauge logging railroads operating in the American west.
History
West Side Flume & Lumber Company
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Shays, Nos. 10 and 15, on its line just south of Yosemite National Park
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.
* Stephen F. Austin State University has a Shay locomotive (s/n 2005 of 1907) on display outside of the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture in Nacogdoches, Texas
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.
* The Canada Science and Technology Museum
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owns one operational engine constructed from two locomotives, numbered engines 3 and 4 built for the Merrill & Ring Lumber Co., Ltd and used in their forestry operations at Theodosia Arm on the British Columbia mainland. This Shay is operated by volunteers of the Bytown Railway Society
* Graham County Railroad No. 1925, (Class C, s/n 3256 of 1925), survives at the North Carolina Transportation Museum
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in Spencer, North Carolina
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History
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. 1925 is the fastest Shay ever recorded, clocked at a speed of 18 mph during "The Great Shay Race" at Railfair '99. It ran at the museum from 1997 to 2005 when the engine needed more boiler work. Since then it has been stored in the roundhouse as a static exhibit, and the universal joints have been removed.
* Serial number 3345, a class C Shay built for New Mexico Lumber Company. in 1929, survives at the Hesston Steam Museum
Hesston Steam Museum is an outdoor museum operated by the Laporte County Historical Steam Society in Hesston, Indiana. The museum occupies 155 acres and is the home of four different gauge railroads along with numerous other pieces of steam powe ...
in Hesston, Indiana
Hesston is an unincorporated community in Galena Township, LaPorte County, Indiana.
History
Originally called Mayes' Corners after Matthew Mayes opened a blacksmith in 1835. In 1857, Valentine Smith established a sawmill west of Mayes' Corner n ...
. This was the last narrow gauge Shay built. It was acquired by the LaPorte County Historical Steam Society and moved to the Hesston Steam Museum, where it was damaged in an engine house fire in 1985. It was rebuilt and resumed operation in 2006.
* West Side Lumber Company No. 9 (Class C, s/n 3199 of 1923) was purchased by the Midwest Central Railroad
The Midwest Central Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad operating within the confines of Mount Pleasant, Iowa's McMillan Park, site of the Midwest Old Thresher's Reunion.
The railroad is a registered, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. T ...
in 1966, and with a minor refurbishment in the mid 1990s, continued to operate at their southeastern Iowa location. The locomotive was used during the MCRR's three operating sessions (the Midwest Old Threshers' Reunion, Midwest Haunted Rails, and the North Pole Express). In January 2011, the MCRR and the Georgetown Loop Railroad
The Georgetown Loop Railroad is a narrow gauge United States heritage railroad located in the Rocky Mountains in Clear Creek County, adjacent to Interstate 70 in Colorado.
This tourist train runs between the communities of Georgetown and S ...
entered into a 7 to 10-year agreement where the 9 has been refurbished by the GLRR staff. It went into revenue passenger service at the Georgetown Loop Railroad on July 14, 2012. It has since returned to Iowa in late summer 2019, and began service at the 2019 Reunion.
* The Illinois Railway Museum
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Overview
Histo ...
, the largest railroad museum in the United States, runs a three-truck three-cylinder Lima built in 1929, a veteran of the J. Neils Lumber Company.
* Meadow River Lumber Co. No.1 is the only Shay in the collection at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania
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* The last production Shay, Western Maryland Railway
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The WM beca ...
No. 6 (s/n 3354 of 1945), still operates on the Cass Scenic Railroad
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, an long heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and oper ...
. The second largest Shay ever built, this 162-ton Class C locomotive was in service only four years when it was retired and placed in the B&O Railroad Museum
The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Balt ...
. In 1981 it was removed from static display, in exchange for a smaller Shay (ex- Cass Scenic No. 1) and an H. K. Porter 0-4-0T (Saint Elizabeth #4), Inc Porter locomotive, and placed in service on the Cass Scenic Railroad, as their No. 6. Nicknamed "Big 6", it has now served in tourist and enthusiast service for a longer period than it did for its original owners. It is the largest Shay currently in existence. Cass Scenic Railroad is also the home of the largest collection of operational geared steam locomotives in the world
* There are three 28-ton narrow gauge Class B Shay locomotives, Nos. 25, 26 and 31, restored at the Alishan Forest Railway in Taiwan. Most of the Alishan's Shays survive on display in Taiwan, although one (No. 14), has been exported to Australia's Puffing Billy Railway
The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beg ...
.
* Locomotive No. 22 is on display at Jiji Railway Station in Jiji, Taiwan
* The Little River Railroad And Lumber Company 70-ton shay number 2147 resides at the company's museum in Townsend, Tennessee.
* The Cass Scenic Railroad is home to several more Shays other than the aforementioned No. 5 and No. 6. The CSRR own and operates Shay #11, built in 1923, went originally to Hutchinson Lumber Company, Feather Falls, California; this Shay is best known as the Feather River No. 3. No. 11, also a class C shay, weighs 103-tons. The CSRR also owns Shay No. 2, a Pacific Coast Shay constructed in July 1928 for the Mayo Lumber Company Mayo often refers to:
* Mayonnaise, often shortened to "mayo"
* Mayo Clinic, a medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Mayo may also refer to:
Places
Antarctica
* Mayo Peak, Marie Byrd Land
Australia
* Division of Mayo, an Aust ...
of Paldi, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. No. 2 is also the only Shay locomotive to have burned wood, coal, and oil in her lifetime; she is a C class Shay, and weighs 93 tons. The Cass Scenic has one other shay that runs, Shay No. 4; originally numbered 5, she was made for the Birch Valley Lumber Company, Tioga, West Virginia in 1922. Like the CSRR's non-operational Shay No. 7, No. 4 is a C-70 80-ton shay.
* The Railway Historical Society of Northern New York (RHSNNY) is home to the Class B Shay No. 8 "Livingston Lansing" which was willed to the museum by Mr. Lansing. It is on display at the RHSNNY museum in Croghan, N.Y., on the Lowville and Beaver River Railroad
The Lowville and Beaver River Railroad is a short-line railroad that was owned by Genesee Valley Transportation (GVT) of Batavia, New York from 1993 to Wednesday, January 24, 2007. Map
The Lowville & Beaver River runs from an interchange, wi ...
. It is not operational.
* Three Class B Shays are at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan, British Columbia. Shay No. 3262, built in 1924 was rebuilt in 1995.
* Goodman Lumber Company No. 9 is on display at Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, WI
* The Longview Public Library in Longview, WA has a fully restored Shay on the library grounds. During special events that is close to the Library and the Civic Center, the Shay is opened up for the public to walk through. http://longviewlibrary.org/shay.php
* Shop number 2769, built in 1914 for the Great Northern Railway, is currently on display in a small park near the BNSF mainline in Columbia Falls, Montana.
* One Class C Shay is exhibited at Buenavista railway station
Buenavista is a commuter railway station in Mexico City. The station provided intercity train services from Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. Since June 2008, the station serves as the terminus of the Tren Suburbano commuter rail service. Ato ...
in Mexico City, formerly belonged to Teziutlan Copper Co. as TCC-2, weighing 45 tons, with a wheel drive engaged for 29.5 inches, vertical cylinders 10 by 12 inches, a force transmission and crankshaft gears. It used wood as fuel until 1946, when it was adapted to burn oil. The Compañía Minera Autlán SA de CV donated this locomotive to Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (better known as N de M and especially in its final years as FNM) was Mexico's state owned railroad company from 1938 to 1998, and prior to 1938 (dating from the regime of Porfirio Díaz), a major railroad con ...
as a historical piece in October 1980.
* Abitibi Power and Paper Co. Shay No. 70, Shop No. 3298, built in 1924, hauled lumber for the Abitibi Power and Paper Co. for many years before being donated to the Town of Iroquois Falls where it currently sits in a small park. Originally built for the Tallassee Power Co. as the 2,713th Shay built. It was passed to five different companies before retiring.
* Lopez Sugar Corporation No. 10 is the only known extant example in the island of Negros
Negros is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of . Negros is one of the many islands of the Visayas, in the central part of the country. The predominant inhabitants of the island region a ...
in the Philippines
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* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
. It is displayed in front of the company headquarters as of June 2022.
Images
File:ShayDrive.jpg, Cass Scenic Railroad
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, an long heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and oper ...
ID photo
File:ShayAccessories.jpg, ''Dixiana'' accessory details (The device labeled "Feed Pump" is actually a Fire Pump which feeds water to a hose used for firefighting. Dixiana uses two Nathan Monitor #6 injectors as boiler feed devices.)
File:Shay locomotive universal joints.jpg, ''Sonora's'' universal joints with sliding coupling between
File:ShayLocomotiveEngine3320.JPG, Engine of Shay locomotive built by Lima Locomotive Works
Lima Locomotive Works was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company took the most distinctive part of its name from its main shop's location in Lima, Ohio. The shops were located between ...
(s/n 3320 of 1928). Locomotive is still in operation in Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, an long heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and ope ...
as Cass Scenic No. 2
File:Steam locomotive shay.jpg, Illustration from Lima catalog – Class B 70-ton (s/n 2982 of 1918) – Fairfield Steel 170 later became Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad 170
File:Shay crankshaft.jpg, A Shay crankshaft and assorted parts at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, and its operating entity, the Sierra Railway, is known as "The Movie Railroad." Both entities are a heritage railway and are a unit of the California State Park System. Railtown 1897 is located in Jamestown, Ca ...
File:Western Maryland Shay 6 on Cass Scenic Railroad.JPG, Shay Engine No. 6 - Cass Scenic Railroad
File:Cass Scenic Railroad State Park - Shay 4.jpg, Shay Engine No. 4 - Cass Scenic Railroad
File:Cass Scenic Railroad State Park - Shay 4 and Shay 11.jpg, Engine No. 4 - Cass Scenic Railroad
File:P 20200723 135410 HDR.jpg, Shay plaque at a display in Williams, Arizona
Williams ( yuf-x-hav, Wii Gvʼul) is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, located west of Flagstaff. Its population was 3,023 at the 2010 census. It lies on the routes of Historic Route 66 and Interstate 40. It is also the souther ...
in 2020
References
Sources
* Kyle Neighbors (1969) ''THE LIMA SHAYS ON THE GREENBRIER, CHEAT & ELK RAILROAD COMPANY'' ASIN B001M07YHO
* Michael Koch ''The Shay Locomotive: Titan of the Timber'' World Press; Limited ed edition (1971) ASIN B0006WIHIE
* Shay Locomotive Works ''Shay Geared Locomotives and Repair Parts Catalogue'' Periscope Film LLC (January 26, 2010)
* Philip V. Bagdon ''Shay Logging Locomotive at Cass, West Virginia, 1901-1960'' TLC Publishing (December 21, 2001)
* The Lima Locomotive & Machine Company ''Shay Patent and Direct Locomotives: Logging Cars, Car Wheels, Axles, Railroad and Machinery Castings'' Periscope Film LLC (March 24, 2010)
* Ranger, Dan. ''Pacific Coast Shay, Strong Man of the Woods''. (Golden West Books, 1964)
* https://www.shaylocomotives.com/data/factsheet/sn-3298.htm
External links
Shay Locomotives.com
- Comprehensive database and reference
* Lists of original, former and current owners
VIDEO: 3 Shay Locos side by side
at Cass Scenic Railroad SP.
VIDEO: Geared Shay Steam Locomotives
at Cass Scenic Railroad
* http://www.ephraimshay.com
* http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/shay.cfm
in the New Jersey Museum of Transportation
The New Jersey Museum of Transportation is a museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, and operation of historic railroad equipment. The organization runs excursion trains on a narrow gauge tourist railroad named the ''Pine Creek Railroa ...
* Questions/Answers about Shay locomotives
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