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- Geared Locomotives - Willamette
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- Willamette geared locomotives were produced by Willamette
Iron & Steel Works
- of Portland, Oregon. A total of 33, two- and three-truck
geared locomotives were
- produced by them between the years of 1922 and 1929. These
locomotives used
- the same basic design as the Lima Shay locomotive. Lima’s
patents had expired
- which allowed the Willamette Iron & Steel Works enter
the market. These geared
- locomotives had many design improvements over the other
geared locomotives
- then being offered.
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- Willamette Iron & Steel Works three-truck
geared locomotive delivered to the
- Anderson & Middleton Lumber Company of Cottage
Grove, Oregon, in 1926.
- [Photo from Railroads
in the Woods*, used here with permission from Oso
Publishing*.]
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