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Ely-Thomas Lumber Co. No. 5 is a 2 truck Shay. It was built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1917 and it is one of thirteen Shays rostered over the years by the Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company of Webster County, WV as No. 12.

It was first used for the Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company pulling log trains.

No. 12 was sold to the Ely Thomas Lumber Company in Fenwick, WV, in 1947 and renumbered #5.

When it was retired from service in 1955, it was purchased by the railfans Harold Allen and Casimir Samborski and placed in storage in Ann Arbor, MI.

It is now a static display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Trivia[]

  • It is the only narrow gauge locomotive in the museum's collection.
  • It was purchased by George Banta Jr., and donated to the museum in 1972.

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