2-6-2 "Prairie" Steam Locomotives in the USA

Class 3 (Locobase 15244)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 71, pp. 432+. Works numbers was 57212 in September 1923.

Not long after the 4 arrived as a saturated-boiler logging Prairie saddle tank, this superheated version joined the WTC. According to Gene Connelly's Baldwin production list, the 3 was originally intended for the West End Coal Company as their 41, then diverted to the WTC. Like the 4, the 3 was renumbered when the Schafer Brothers Lumber Company bought the WTC in 1928 as the 9 and later renumbered 29.

Class 4 (Locobase 15243)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 71, p. 428+. Works number was 55913 in December 1922.

The WTC was based in Hoquiam, Wash and exploited timber reserves along the Wynooche River. This typical oil-burning logging Prairie saddle tank rolled along a typical logging road that featured 6-7% grades and ultra-tight 40 degrees. The 4 spent only a short time wearing the WTC's herald before the company was sold to Shafer Brothers Logging Company. When the latter took over, they renumbered the 4 as their #8. It was later renumbered 28 and remained in service into the 1950s.