The California and Western was a unique railroad they were a standard gauge logging railroad. Road History - California Western Railroad The 110 is the only 2-6-6-2T locomotive in service anywhere in the world!

As such, she's attracted quite a crowd of visitors to the BHCRR and will continue to do so in the future. She's a rare engine big tank locomotives are few and far between, mallet tanks are rarer and she's a mallet in regular service, which is an unusual thing around the world. Despite this, she returned to service in 2001 and has barely seen time off since. The 110 did a fair amount of time out of service before being acquired by the Black Hills Central Railroad in South Dakota. Despite this, however, most lumber companies could not afford to buy locomotives this big a relative few examples survived into the preservation era. They provided excellent pulling power at as high a speed as lumber companies wanted. Large lumber companies required more motive power than shays could provide at high speeds, so they turned to small mallet type locomotives like the 110 to fill the void. Shays, Heislers, Climaxes, even small Mikados and Praries worked on lumber railroads. Steam locomotives came in many different shapes and sizes, especially for logging railroads. Road History - Weyerhauser Timber Company, Rayonier Lumber Company, Black Hills Central Railroad YouTube Black Hills Central Railroad #110 The 26 is the smallest of the engines undergoing a rebuild at Steamtown, but hers will most likely be the most thorough rebuild. Pending all goes well with the test runs, the engine will return to regular service for the 2016 operating season. Decemsaw the engine moved into the roundhouse at Steamtown, complete once again, fired up and ready for test runs. Steamtown, however, is a National Historic Site under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, making them a government operation. For museums and not for profits, such rebuilds are expensive both monetarily and in time. The engine has been out of service for many years awaiting a full rebuild.

In 1979, the engine was again sold, going through a few different owners before arriving at Steamtown. When Baldwin no longer needed the engine, it was sold to Jackson Iron and Steel in Ohio. The 26 was the direct opposite she was built for Baldwin to handle switching duties around their Eddystone plant. Most of the engines that left the Baldwin Locomotive Works never returned to the place of their construction they were too busy working on the roads that had ordered them. Road History - Baldwin Locomotive Works, Jackson Iron and Steel, Steamtown NHS