Puget Sound & Baker River Railway #2 was one of two Ten Wheeler (4-6-0) type locomotives built in 1913 by Burnham, Williams & Co., an early incarnation of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA (#1 & #2).
The Puget Sound & Baker River was formed in 1905 as a joint venture by the Hamilton Logging Co., (later the Lyman Timber Co.) and the Dempsey Logging Co., when the owners where unable to negotiate acceptable rates from the Great Northern Railway to move their logs the 23½ miles from the mountains along the Skagit River to Sedro-Woolley. It was chartered as a common carrier and, although it conveyed general freight and even a few passengers, its layout was dictated by the lumber business. Maximum grades reached 6% and curves 25°.
The locomotives were known as “One-Spot” and “Two-Spot”. “One-Spot” served the company until it was cut up for scrap in 1956. Its tender is now coupled to “Two-Spot”. That year, #2 was donated for display at Sedro-Woolley, WA, in Bingham Park. In 1972, it was moved to Big Log Park, now Harry Osborne Park on W Ferry Street.
#2 has an engine wheelbase of 21’ 3” and driver wheelbase of 11’. It weighs 104,000 lbs, 84,000 lbs on its 46” drivers. The cylinders are 16" x 24" and it is equipped with Stephenson valve gear. With a 19.7 sq ft grate, 120 sq ft firebox and total heating surface of 1,380 sq ft, it operated at a boiler pressure of 170 psi delivering 19,300 lbs tractive effort.
The locomotive is on display with a load of lumber on separate logging trucks, and Burlington Northern Steel Cupola Caboose #10167 built as Great Northern X87 in 1964.
