Cascade Timber Company 2-6-2 "Prairie" Locomotives in the USA

Class 107 (Locobase 15232)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 71, pp. 336+. See also "Baldwin 'Prairie' 2-6-2", Orange Empire Railway Museum website at [], last accessed 4 June 2013. Works number was 55415 in May 1922.

Among the holdings of the Pacific States Lumber Company of Tacoma, Wash was the Cascade Timber Company of North Yakima. It was founded in 1902 and operated independently until 1957, when it merged with Boise-Payette to form Boise-Cascade.

A coal-burning saddle-tank logging Prairie locomotive was in the minority of such engines in the Pacific Northwest-most were oil-burners. But otherwise the superheated 107 fell right into line on moderate curves of 16 to 20 degrees and up short grades of 3% and a half-mile (0.8 km) grade of 2 1/2%. The hotter steam meant 8" (203 mm) piston valves.

The 107 operated for Cascade Timber until it was sold $16,865 in 1942 to Ventura County Railway in Oxnard, Calif as their #2. 21 years later, the 2 wsa sold to W E Standish of Port Hueneme, Calif in February 1964. Sold again in 1970 to Terry Durkin for his Orange Empire Trolley (later Railway) Museum, where it went on display in November 1973, then into tourist railroad service. The 2 was extensively overhauled from 2001-2006, then placed back in operation.