Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2019.080.001 |
Object Name |
Album, Photograph |
Description |
Alberni Pacific locomotive #2 sitting stationery on some tracks with a crowd of onlookers. The locomotive is nicknamed "2-spot" after its number plate, and it is a 1912 locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima Ohio. It is a Class B 42-2 (3 cylinders/2-trucks/8 drivers) 42 ton engine. It is a shay and is at the McLean Mill Historic Site. |
Image File Name |
1993 - Alberni 2-spot - Alberni - 2019080001 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1993/ / |
Place |
Alberni |
Provenance |
Alberni Pacific locomotive #2 worked as a switching engine, pulling logs along branch lines behind the City down to the main tracks, where larger locomotives took over. It also pushed crew cars and pulled stumps. H.R. MacMillan donated the engine to the City of Port Alberni in 1954. H.R. MacMillan Export Company was started in 1919 by Harvey Reginald MacMillan. The company was also B.C.'s first privately-owned lumber export brokerage firm. MacMillan was instrumental in developing international lumber markets as well as establishing the British Columbia Forest Service as B.C.'s first Chief Forester. The creation of the Seaboard Lumber Company threatened MacMillan's success by leaving the company without the necessary lumber to fulfill their orders. MacMillan responded to this threat by purchasing other mills, thus, creating B.C.'s first truly integrated forest company. In 1951 H.R. MacMillan Export Company merged with Bloedel, Stewart, and Welch to form MacMillan Bloedel Limited. The two well-established companies possessed neighbouring timber holdings and their synergy produced a forestry company which could compete at a global level. |
Search Terms |
locomotive Alberni Pacific #2 Shay Lima Locomotive Works Alberni No. 2 McLean Mill HR MacMillan |
Collection |
Locomotives |
People |
Milutinovic |
Subjects |
Locomotives Documentary, Vancouver Island People |