The Shay Locomotive was acquired in 2021 from Stephen F. Austin State University. The locomotive was one of 2,600 ever built and is one of just 115 remaining worldwide. The Harbor Springs Area ...
LONGVIEW — The historic Shay locomotive, a relic of Longview’s logging heyday, is back home. Just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, volunteers hooked the shiny black boiler and cab assembly onto a giant tow truck ...
The Friends of Longview are on a treasure hunt, but the only map the nonprofit group has is a list of appraised coins. A man walked into the offices at The Merk last year and offered to donate his ...
The Shay locomotive pulled from a quarry in the 900 block of East North Street in 1953 is shown being refurbished in this photo from the Allen County Historical Society. Courtesy of Allen County ...
HARBOR SPRINGS, MICH. -- A historic locomotive has been relocated from Texas to Northern Michigan, where it will give residents and visitors a more complete picture of the impact its inventor had on ...
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Instead of the rusting, broken down Shay locomotive he knew as a boy, Ivan Christensen could see his own tall figure in the polished metal of a fully restored piece of Longview ...
The iconic train on Raguet Street soon will be pulling out of Nacogdoches for the final time. Moving operations will begin Wednesday, Oct. 6, for the 36-ton Shay locomotive outside Stephen F. Austin ...
PORTLAND — Mount Emily Shay No. 1 has a new home. The historic steam logging locomotive, used for logging operations in Union County for three decades through the late 1950s, traveled by BNSF Railroad ...
CASS, W.Va. – Atop the third highest peak in West Virginia, an eerie whistle snaked its way through the thick birch and spruce trees. The sound echoed from a churning 1945 Shay steam locomotive, the ...