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yea well we also have a shay with the #7 at camp 6 logging museum at pt defiance park and zoo i wonder if our engine is the same one ?
zigzag4d9 2 years ago
nice
durangoandsilverton 2 years ago
Are you aware of any website links that gives history of of the Lima Locomotive Works, and more specifically, maybe how many Shay steam engines got built in the United States?
NormRasmussen1 2 years ago
I have very little knowledge of trains, let alone # 7. Are you saying that in 1985 # 7 had a fire? If so, what happened, that you know of. Thanks!
NormRasmussen1 2 years ago
well #7 ran at the hesston steam museum in the 70s and early 80s till 1985 when the museum's engine house burned completely to the ground, the engines inside where badly damaged and #7 was one of them. After the hard work of volunteers, #7 ran again Labor Day weekend of 06. Before the engine was in Oregon, it was also in Colorado for a few years working for the New Mexico Lumber Co, out of Dolores Colorado, about an hour or little more from Durango where i am now working for the D&SNG Railroad.
Chatzi473 2 years ago
Chatz - Wow ... all those who helped restore those engines certaintly deserve several rounds of applause! Can I ask a stupid question or two -- is "Shay" the manufacturer of # 7? Where would # 7 have been built; in what year/s?
NormRasmussen1 2 years ago
#7 was built but the Lima Locomotive Works in LIma, Ohio in 1929. It was one of the last of its kind built. Shay is the type of Locomotive, manly used on logging lines. because the way it is built with all the driving rods and pistons on one side it can go up steeper track with more power, But it has a very slow top speed compared to other locomotives
Chatzi473 2 years ago
I was a volunteer there before i moved out to Durango.
Chatzi473 2 years ago
Chatzi: A volunteer on # 7 there in La Porte? What sort of volunteer work did you do? When were you there volunteering, if you don't mind my asking? You probably have a LOT of treasured memories to share about # 7 Shay, I would imagine! - Norm R.
NormRasmussen1 2 years ago
Well i started volunteering there the in June of 06, and helping a little with getting #7 back up and running. I was there the first time she steamed again after the fire in 1985 and then Labor Day weekend of 06 the first public run of #7, i was one of the conductors on #7 train that weekend. I Volunteered there up till August of 07 when i left for Durango for college. #7 was really the first steam loco i really worked on and helped with. I remember helping steam her up and loading her with wood
Chatzi473 2 years ago