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Re: Particle Board Plant Storing A&MR 44 Tonner Closed/Sold
Author: Jeff Moore
Date: 12-23-2011 - 23:28
24 years ago would have been about 1987...and it probably would have been the #101 or #102.
I don't have the specifics in front of me, but my memory tells me the #101 ended up somewhere in the southeast for a while before Timber Heritage Association purchased the locomotive and brought it back. The #102 travelled south to Richmond, CA, where it worked for a scrap yard until they cut it up about 2004. The #104 remained in Eureka for quite a while afterwards- I shot a few pictures of it sitting next to one of the Pacific Lumber Company 80-ton GE's in the spring/early summer of 1994, and then saw it again a few more times in the Eureka yard. By 1995 or 1996 the North Coast hauled it to Willits, where it sat in the yard there for a while before Roots of Motive Power purchased the locomotive and trucked it to their property.
Jeff Moore
Elko, NV
Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> I don't have the number right handy, but about 24
> years back, one of the sister 44 tonners was ran
> light engine from up there to Willits. I knew
> both individuals involved...they said it was a
> really long day. Wish I'd been along on that one.
I don't have the specifics in front of me, but my memory tells me the #101 ended up somewhere in the southeast for a while before Timber Heritage Association purchased the locomotive and brought it back. The #102 travelled south to Richmond, CA, where it worked for a scrap yard until they cut it up about 2004. The #104 remained in Eureka for quite a while afterwards- I shot a few pictures of it sitting next to one of the Pacific Lumber Company 80-ton GE's in the spring/early summer of 1994, and then saw it again a few more times in the Eureka yard. By 1995 or 1996 the North Coast hauled it to Willits, where it sat in the yard there for a while before Roots of Motive Power purchased the locomotive and trucked it to their property.
Jeff Moore
Elko, NV
Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> I don't have the number right handy, but about 24
> years back, one of the sister 44 tonners was ran
> light engine from up there to Willits. I knew
> both individuals involved...they said it was a
> really long day. Wish I'd been along on that one.
