Lima Built Shay-Geared Locomotive

Meadow River Lumber Company Locomotive No. 1, seen at Steamtown in 1978, is a two-truck Shay-patent geared locomotive typical of engines used by many lumber, mining, and quarry company railroads, other industrial railroads, and a few common carrier short lines and major railroad systems. It was built at Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio in May of 1910.