This oil burning two truck Shay was built in 1924 by the Lima Locomotive Works as #2 for the Security Logging Co., in Carnation, WA. Over the following years, it went through a number of owners and was renumbered #5 until, in 1938, it arrived at the Snellstrom Brothers in Vaughn, OR. It was converted to burn wood in 1942.
Three years later, it went to the Long-Bell Lumber Co., in Vaughn, OR. In 1955, it was donated to the City of Longview, WA. In 1998, it was removed from display and underwent restoration by John Chilson in Columbia Heights, WA. It returned to display just to the west of the Longview Public Library in Longview, WA, in 2013.
#5 weighs 105,500 lbs and has 32" drivers and three 11" x 12" cylinders. Operating at a boiler pressure of
180 psi it delivered 20,000 lbs tractive effort.
The bunker has a capacity of 950 gallons of oil and 2,000 gallons of water.
