The engine house at the Hesston Steam Museum. Hesston Indianna USA. June 1988.

This is a "Rare" behind the scenes view, of a railroad museum repair shop. This building is normally "Locked" and is generally off limits to the general visiting public. The two narrow guage steam locomotives shown here, are two unfortunate victims of the 1985 opening day enginehouse fire. There was more than considerable damage to these locomotives, and several wooden cars stored in the original shop building were destroyed. By the time I had taken these photos, the museum resumed operations with a Czechloslovakian 0-4-0 tank locomotive and several cars on loan from the recently closed Chicago Brookfield Zoo railroad. Other cars from Ohio's "Kings Island" amusement park and other sources were starting to slowly arrive on the property. The "Shay" logging locomotive in the background was the Lima Locomotive Works last narrow guage shay locomotive built. 1929.
Shay locomotives had verticle side mounted cylinders, and drive shafts attached to the locomotives trucks. They weren't fast, but they were very powerful. Lots of torque. They were used mainly in Logging, Mining, and Industrial railroading. Mainly logging. It was a pleasant surprise on this day, when a museum volunteer let Me inside to photograph this scene.