I couldn't locate Broughton Lumber Co., #2 when I first visited the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon, and no-one at the museum seemed to know anything about it. The next time I was there, however, I found the locomotive on a siding away from the museum. It was raining quite heavily.
This two-truck Heisler was built by the Heisler Locomotive Works in Erie, PA, in 1909 for the E. C. Shevlin Lumber & Box Co., in Kalama, WA, as #3. Five years later, it was sold to the Multnomah Lumber & Box Co., in Carrolls, WA. In 1919, it was bought by the Rainier Logging Co., in Douty, OR, and renumbered #1.
In 1920, #1 was transferred to the Douty Lumber Co., and at some later date, it was bought by the
C. H. Wheeler Lumber Co., in Cochran, OR. In 1928, it was sold to the Broughton Lumber Co., in Willard, WA, and renumbered #2. At some further date, it was bought by Jack Rogers and was then leased to the Port of Tillamook Bay, Tillamook, OR, in 2002.
A wood burner, #2 weighs 84,000 lbs. It has 36” drivers and 15” x 12” cylinders. Operating at a boiler pressure of 200 psi, it delivered 18,800 lbs tractive effort.
