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Hammond Lumber Company #15
Builder/Year: Baldwin 1916
Type: 2-8-2
Weight: 90 tons
Construction #: 43563
Location: Samoa Roundhouse
Satus: non-operational
Former Humbird Lumber Co. No.4, former Mason County Logging Co. No. 12 at Bordeaux, WA, the locomotive was purchased by Hammond Lumber Co. December 7th 1941 and renumbered No. 15. It worked mostly pulling log trains from Crannell to Samoa. After the first diesel was purchased, No. 15 was used only when the diesel was out of service. Hammond became Georgia Pacific in 1956. About a year before the railroad was shutdown completely, No. 15 was donated to the city of Eureka, California, for display at Sequoia Park (1960). The city donated the locomotive to the Association in 1979.