Class 2 (Locobase 12765)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 43, p. 234. Works number was 38967 in December 1912.

Placed on the line immediately after Polson Logging engine 101 described in Locobase 12764, this Mikado had a smaller tender, but was otherwise identical. It went to nearby Kerriston, Wash. Its flangeless drivers (on 2nd and 3rd axles) contributed to its being able to negotiate 30-deg curves.

2's subsequent career had several more stops than the 101. It was sold to the NorthWest Lumber Company then in 1929 to Polson. Like the 101, the 2 was kept in service when Rayonier Corporation took over Polson in 1948. In 1963, the 2 moved 2/3s of the way across the country to operate in tourist service on the Grand Travers Northern (Michigan), then on the 4. 1/2 -mile Cadillac & Lake City. Then sold to Kettle Moraine, the 2 eventually was donated to the Illinois Railway Museum.