Welcome to my HLC 17 Simulation for scratch! I call this a showcase because It is more of a showcase than an actual simulator.
This logging engine's big saddle tank had a horsecollar cross section, but stood very tall on the boiler, which gave it a slab-sided look. Like many logging engines, the 110 served several masters. First was Crossett Western, then based in Wauna, Ore. In 1943, the 10 went to Hammond Lbr Co of Samoa, CA as their #16. After Hammond was bought out by Georgia-Pacific Corp in 1953, the engine worked into the 1960s. After its retirement, the 16 was bought by Harold Morgan of the Fortuna Kiwanis Club Fortuna, CA, which put it on display in a local park beginning in November 1966. Eventually, the 16 wound up with the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad (BYCX) where it was renumbered for the Crossett Western. See the Mount Rainer Scenic Railway's description of the very similar path taken by the 11 at http://www.mrsr.com/alco17.html . Briefly, the 11 was sold to Hammond Lumber, which renumberd it 17. It last worked for a logger in 1945, when a fire at Hammond left it stranded and idle. Local lumberman Gus Peterson bought the engine in 1964, heroically disassembled it and trucked it out of its "desert isle", reconditioned the engine, and put back in service on his tourist road, the Klamath & Hoppow Valley. After gas prices and inflation doomed the K&HV, the next angel didn't appear until 1980. He was Tom Murray, Jr., who took the 17 apart a second time and trucked it Tacoma. The Mount Rainier Scenic Railway accepted the engine but couldn't see to its restoration for 14 years. Once begun, however, the project moved swiftly and the engine was back in tourist service in 1995.
