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Description

Long-Bell #5

History

Lima
Shay
2 Trucks
Built-in tender (Bunker)
Standard Gauge
105,000 lbs.
11 X 12 cylinders
950-gallon oil capacity
2,000-gallon water capacity

Built in 1924 by Lima Locomotive Works, starting as Security Logging #2 in Carnation. With many different owners, #2 was renumbered #5. In 1938, #5 was sent to Oregon for the Snellstrom Brothers and converted to burn wood instead of oil in 1942, and sold to the Long-Bell Lumber Company. Although Long-Bell #5 was donated to the City of Longview, WA in 1955, it was removed from the park in 1998 for restoration and placed out in a park back on static display next to the public library to this day.


© 2021 by Eric Hume

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