Stay Off The Damn Roof
by Floyd Snyder
Title
Stay Off The Damn Roof
Artist
Floyd Snyder
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Stay Off The Damn Roof Floyd Snyder
The caboose that was attached to the engine that is in the photograph in this same gallery, Number 104 Coos Bay Lumber Company, had this sign on display indie the caboose. I guess they had some kind of problem with people falling off the caboose at one time or another.
Built in December 1922 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA, steam locomotive No. 104 was delivered in the spring of 1923 to the Coos Bay Lumber Company and put to work hauling open cars of newly-hewn logs in the forests of Coos County.
By the time the locomotive was retired in 1954, it was the last steam engine in use in the local woods, pulling cars from the mountain town of Powers to the company's McCormack log dump on Isthmus Slough, a few miles from their Coos Bay mill. It also hauled logs from Fairview to Coquille and then on to Coos Bay.
An average train was 40 to 50 cars, but when crossing what trainmen called Overland, the section between Coquille Valley and the head of Isthmus Slough, the increased grade required that half the train be sidetracked. After the first half was taken over, the engine returned for the remaining cars.
In areas where steep grades were not an issue, it wasn't unusual for the locomotive to pull as many as 100 fully-loaded flatcars.
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September 11th, 2016
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