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The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains on a roughly 5-mile (8.0 km) route between McEwen and Sumpter. [2]
Reorganised as the Heisler Locomotive Works in 1907, it produced locomotives of the Heisler design until 1941. A & G Price of Thames, New Zealand received an order for a Heisler locomotive in 1943 from Ogilvie and Co, sawmillers of Hokitika , who wanted to purchase a Heisler locomotive but were unable to do so as production of Heisler ...
Restored to operation on Sumpter Valley Railroad in 1995. [46] Delivered to WP&YR in 1941 with the tender from SV Loco #50 (4-6-0, Baldwin #42865, 1916). Loco 1st 81 received the ex-#191 or 194 tender from Rotary #1 or 2 in 1949. [41] In 1993, WP&YR Loco 1st 81 (by then, Sumpter Valley Railroad #19) received the former tender of SV Ry. Loco #20 ...
This is a list of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United States. Narrow-gauge railroads of various sizes existed across the US, especially during the late 1800s, with the most popular gauge being 3 ft gauge. [1] [2] Some of the more famous 3 ft gauge railroad networks in the US were based in California, Colorado, and Hawaii. These ...
Sumpter Valley Railway Passenger Station was the westernmost station on the Sumpter Valley Railway, which ran 80 miles (130 km) from Baker City to Prairie City in the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] The line reached Prairie City in 1910 but was abandoned in 1933, and the station became a private dwelling. [ 5 ]
The excursion line has stations in Sumpter and McEwen. [13] The Sumpter station and part of the line are within the state park, known as the Sumpter Valley Dredge State Historic Area. [14] The dredge on display in the park was the last of three used to mine gold from surface deposits along the Powder River. It operated here from 1935 through ...
The Sumpter Valley Railway, Middle Fork (John Day River) Spur, near Bates, Oregon, was built in 1916. Also known as the Oregon Lumber Company Railroad , it was designed by engineer Joseph A. West.
The steam locomotive, as commonly employed, has its pistons directly attached to cranks on the driving wheels; thus, there is no gearing, one revolution of the driving wheels is equivalent to one revolution of the crank and thus two power strokes per piston (steam locomotives are almost universally double-acting, unlike the more familiar internal combustion engine).