Photo Credit:
Top: George R. Kadelak Collection
Center: David Epling
Bottom: unknown photographer
| Shop Number 3286 | - | Built for: Fruit Growers Supply Co. |
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Class: 80-3 |
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Cylinders: 3 - 13.5 x 15 |
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Empty Weight: 167,200 |
| Owners: Fruit Growers Supply Co. #5, Hilts, CA (6-1939) Standard Logging Co. #5 (?#80), Cochran, OR (9-5-1945) Long-Bell Lumber Co., Cochran, OR (5-1947) Pickering Lumber Corporation #7 (2nd), Standard, CA The Pacific Locomotive Association, Sunol, CA (1968) West Side & Cherry Valley RR (tourist) , Tuolumne, CA (1982) Dr. Al Nichel (railfan), Jamestown, CA |
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| Disposition: The #7 is currently "on display" outside the old Sierra Railway machine shop, Railtown, Jamestown, CA. | |||
| Additional Notes:
SLc Survivor List Pickering #7, s/n 3286: is privately owned by Dr. Al Nichel. He purchased the locomotive from the Westside & Cherry Valley Railway in 1982. It was trucked to the Castro Point Railway and a substantial amount of work was done to the locomotive to return it to service, but it never ran there. In 1997, the #7 and several pieces of Pickering rolling stock also owned by the Dr. Nichel were trucked to Railtown at Jamestown, CA. This is kind of fitting, actually, as the Pickering sent its locomotives to Jamestown many a time. The history of the locomotive should also note its return to steam in 1971 as "Sugar Pine Railway" #7... Brian T. Wise |
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