Photo Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2021.072.033 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Hillcrest Lumber Company Climax No. 10. It is a standard gauge 3 truck Class "C" Climax steam engine, built May of 1928 by Climax Manufacturing Company. It is heading towards Lake Cowichan. |
Image File Name |
unk - Hillcrest Lumber No. 10 Moving - Lake Cowichan - 2021072033 - jpg72 - 001 |
Place |
Lake Cowichan |
Provenance |
The locomotive was built for Hillcrest Lumber Company and was the second to last Climax engine built & delivered and was initially designated as Hillcrest Lumber Company No. 3. It worked at the company's Mesachie Lake mill. It was eventually re-designated No. 10 at an unknown date. In 1968, the mill was shut down and the locomotive was the last Climax engine in regular operating condition in the world. In 1979, it was sold to the Mt. Rainier Railroad & Logging Museum. In 1917, Carlton Stone built a sawmill in Sahtlam, BC, five miles west of Duncan, BC on Vancouver Island. It was destined to become the largest independently owned family sawmill in British Columbia, employing some 300 employees in the sawmill / planer mill complex and another 50 in the logging division. The company operated in Sahtlam from 1917 to 1943 and when the timber was depleted, Stone moved the whole operation lock, stock and barrel by rail to Mesachie Lake, BC, 19 miles west of Duncan, BC past the town of Lake Cowichan (From: The Last Whistle - Hillcrest Lumber Company LTD by Cecil Ashley). |
Search Terms |
Hillcrest Lumber Company Climax Climax Manufacturing Company No. 10 Locomotive Lake Cowichan |
Collection |
Locomotives |
Subjects |
Locomotives Documentary, Cowichan Valley |