Here’s a pic I found online. Can anyone identify it?
Looks like a 0-4-0 saddle tank switch engine of unknown manufacture, modified and heavily beaten by use at a logging railroad.
Wow, I’m impressed. This is a pic of “Old Curly”. The first steam loco in BC, Canada used for logging. At the time of this photo, it was owned by Darius Ogden Mills Co. Not yet named “Old Curly”. It was later sold to Royal City Saw & Planing after serving in construction of the Canadian Pacific’s western section.
At some point, she was converted to a 0-4-4ST and renumbered #3. She now sits in the Burnaby Village Museum in BC, “preserved”.
Here’s what she looks like now…
Hi,
I may be way off base here (weak in Steam) were these manfactured as/under a Forney?
The Original Picture looked really like a Forney to me.
Please set me straight, as I want to learn more too.
Thanks,
Chad,
In the articles I’ve read on this loco I haven’t seen anything refering to it as a Forney.
Hi,
Actually I have been looking more at it too.
It looks like it had been an 0-4-0T, & then had tender mods, with the (Forney-like) x-x-4 truck added for stability.
Which I think is pretty neat!
Thanks for the interesting topic & clarification.
That is a neat little Loco!!!
And in case anyone didn’t know the original picture has a homemade spark arrestor on the stack.
I think the picture clearly shows that Maddog [swg] I believe he was looking for actual builder, owner, history, etc.
It appears that this 0-4-4 (not all 0-4-4s are Forney’s) was built in 1879 in San Francisco by the firm of Marschuetts & Cantrell. I haven’t found where a builder’s number was applied by this firm. It traveled quite a bit, originally serving in Peru, and later was used in the construction of the Canadian Pacific. It was restored by the CPR in 1920.
http://members.shaw.ca/preservedsteambc/southern_bc.htm
Bill
This 0-4-4 was origonally built as an 0-4-0, it later was converted to 0-4-4.