Reported this day in the Port Orford Bugle Guard and Register, by your townsman - Lionel Q Bungetrumpet Jnr.
Today saw a rousing and somewhat noisy demonstration of the local industrial interest, on the occasion of a civic presentation in the city hall given by Mr Richard A Smith, the President, and members of the Board, Commission, Owners and Share-holders and all connected and otherwise involved parties of the locally-renowned employer, the Port Orford Coast Railroad [incorporating the Old Mill Lumber Company]. With understandable pride, he reported to the assembled audience of some four hundred citizens, that he was ‘pleased to announce the acquisition and taking on roster of three locomotives to expand our fleet in these times of collective expansion in the timber and lumber industries.’
He continued by noting that ’ Having been acquired from three different railroads, the following detail the new locomotives -
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28-ton two cylinder two truck Shay #5, formerly of the Michigan-California Lumber company - retaining its old number as a mark of respect, but heralded on the engineer’s cabside as a locomotive of the Port Orford Coast Railroad.
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28-ton Heisler #12, formerly of the Mount Gleep and Plorn River Lumber company.
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28-ton two-cylinder two-truck Shay #14, formerly of the Vibona Bridge and Crow Creek RR Company.
These three fine locomotives, it is sincerely to be hoped, will serve to expand the capabilities of the POCRR and in particular, enhance the in-forest delivery connectivity of the UK-based shortline our railroad with regard to those operations carried out at Port Orford, in spite of the somewhat extended lines of communication that presently exist between them.
We are sure, therefore, that you will all join us in wishing success and a long life of steaming to our three new ‘ladies of the woods’
[Glasses were raised, toasts taken and the local high-school comb band struck up a rousing version of ‘The Bonny blue Flag’.]
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