7-12AP Whitney's Molly-O Art PrintThis scene shows a Whitney Company crew preparing the Molly-O for its trip up the incline at the Blue Star Logging Camp north of Tillamook, Oregon in the early 1920s.The Molly-O was a Climax-geared locomotive built in 1920 by the Climax Manufacturing Company, Lima, Ohio, and was shipped direct to the Whitney Company, Idaville, Oregon. The pistons of the Climax worked downward and to the rear, parallel with the rails. They connected with a flywheel turning a cross shaft geared to the central driveshaft under the boiler. In the Blue Star Camp area the Molly-O negotiated grades of up to 8 percent. She brought in loaded trucks to the incline's landing where they were dropped down to the Kilchis Valley. Another Whitney steam locomotive called the Big Jack, a Baldwin 2-6-2, would pick up the loaded cars and haul them to Whitney's log dump. The steam locomotive's portion of history in the woods of the Pacific Northwest was fairly short, but in that span of time it claims a highly exciting and adventurous segment of logging's rugged history. (Information from the Oregon Historical Quarterly, March 1972.) |
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