In August of 2005, My fiancee "Cheryl", who became My wife on June 24th 2006, took a pleasant Sunday road trip with Me to northwest Indianna. We visited the Hesston Steam Museum wich has appeared here in numerous past postings at Eddie's Railfan Page.Shown here is New Mexico Lumber Company "Shay" locomotive # 7. Built by the Lima Locomotive Works of Lima Ohio in 1927. This 3 foot track guage locomotive, was Lima's "last" narrow guage shay type built. The locomotive was nearing the end of it's "Fire Damaged" rebuilding at the time of this photograph, and is scheduled to resume operation for the 2006 season. The locomotive was badly fire damaged in 1985, when the Hesston Enginehouse caught fire at the end of the openiong day operations. The Shay locomotive was invented by a man named Emphriam A. Shay in the 1880's. The Lima locomotive Works bought the patent after being impressed by this industrial type steam locomotive. These engines were not fast, but had plenty of torque. They were used in Logging, Mining, and various Industrial railroad applications. Many are in use today pulling leisurely tourist railroad passenger trains.
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Your are Nice. And so is your site! Maybe you need some more pictures. Will return in the near future.
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