There are several locomotives in the White Mountain
Central Railroad's collection in Lincoln, NH, but, when I visited, the complex was closed and only #5 was
accessible.
This Columbia type (2-4-2T) Tank locomotive was built by Burnham Williams & Company under license to the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1906 for the J. E. Henry Lumber Company’s railroad, the East Branch & Lincoln. At one point, the EB&L was the largest logging railroad in New England, with a total of about seventy-two miles of trackage. #5 worked on the line as it changed hands from 1906 until 1946, when it was relegated to yard switcher at the Lincoln mill. Its last run was in 1969. It then went on display at the entrance to the Loon Mountain Ski resort in Lincoln, NH, until 1999, when it was moved to Clark’s Trading Post in exchange for a 1917 Porter locomotive. It has since been restored to operation.
The engine weighs 98,000 lbs, 70,000 lbs on its 46” drivers. A coal burner with 15” x 24” cylinders, it operated at a boiler pressure of 160 psi delivering 15,965 lbs tractive effort.
