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Near "Y" below Butte Falls, Aug. 1950, Locomotive No. 7 with logs and derrick

Year or Date Range
1950
Location
G54 B 2 MS 797 (folder: "Last trainload of logs being loaded 11 May 1961")

No. 7 is a willamette-geared locomotive built by the Willamette Iron and steel Works in Portland around 1926 and purchased by Medco in May 1949. It is a oil burning steam engine and now sits on a short track at the Railroad Park Resort just south of Dunsm

summer 2012, in Jackson County book collection, 1950s