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Shay locomotives like number 14 were typically "kit" engines assembled from a stockpile of parts to meet the needs of the various roads that ordered them. The 14 was originally number 10, built in June of 1916 by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, for the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company in Hobart Mills, California. Only a year later, it was running for the Hobart Estate Co., another lumbering road also in Hobart Mills, where it served until 1938.
It was then moved to the Hyman Michaels Co., a dealer in railroad equipment located in San Francisco. It was there a year and then moved again, this time to a logging outfit in Tuolumne, California—famous among narrow gauge fans—the West Side Lumber Company.
It was there that the engine was renumbered 14. At the end of the West Side's days in 1965, the shay was sold to a tourist line in Camino, California, where it ran until 1973. It was sold again and brought to Colorado for the reconstructed Colorado Central Railroad in Central City. It was moved again in 1980 to the famous Georgetown Loop Railroad in Silver Plume, Colorado. Finally, following the Colorado Historical Society's "hostile" take over at the Loop in 2004, the shay can now be found at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. |
