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Mutual Plywood Corporation #54
Builder/Year: Heisler 1927
Type: B-B Diesel converted from 2-truck Heisler
Weight: 24 tons
Construction #: 1546
Location: Samoa Roundhouse
Satus: non-operational
Originally built as Elk River Mill & Lumber Co. No. 3, it worked only 10 years until the mill shut down for good; a junk dealer scrapped the boiler and sold the rest to Mutual Plywood Corp., a Murphy diesel engine was mounted on the frame and it was used as a mill switcher. In the 1960s it became U.S. Plywood Corp. No. M62; U.S. Plywood was subsequently purchased by Simpson Timber Co. Sold to Frank Bayliss for display at a small tourist railroad at Alton, it was purchased from him by the Association in 1991. It is operational.