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This is one of the first shays "out of the hatch", as created
by your friend and mine, Jimmy Booth for yr fthfl svt. This time photographed
against a nice sky backdrop. That dry looking grass bespeaks California's long
summers. She a beauty, isn't she ?
Click Here to see a Super Sized view of this great model, one that will fill yer screen ! ( Yeah, you could click on the photo and get the same result. 'Just checkin' to see if yer payin' attention. . . ) |
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Here's "Bills #5", glidin' down the high iron. The West Side kept their Shays
lookin' pretty good. Aside from the fact that they'd spend 3-4 months out of
the year sidelined, (Because of WINTER in the Sierras. ), these
shays were "Oil Burners", which were a whole lot cleaner burning than coal
burners.
And too, "normal" road engines kicked up a lot of dust and grime due to their speed. Shays, on the other hand, with their leisurely 16-18 miles per hour top speeds, were less inclined to kick up dust. A kinda "long way around" to explain why the #6 you see here isn't heavily weathered. But them's the facts. ( You'll see this story on the #6 Shay page too. Hey, this writer's only got so much "stuff", y'know. ) |
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The prototype for this low slung beauty was built for the West Side
Lumber Co. in 1902, being completed in August of that year. She bore Lima's
Construction Number 730, and remained in and around Tuolumne, California her
whole life. Unfortunately, the #5 and #6 suffered from "bad press", but heck,
look at what kind of trackage they had to run on ! It wasn't exactly "Class 1
Mainline" you know. . .
According to The Shay Web Site Number 5 was scrapped in August of 1950, after spending some 48 years working in the woods. Reason enough to immortalize her in model form, we thinks.
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