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Shay 100th birthday party
Dan Rowe:
Shay shop number 3288, Lima Stone #10, never left Lima OH It is now on display at the Allen County Museum. There is a birthday party on September 21.
I will be there and I will have a table for some of my Shay work and Shay related stuff. If you want to play stump the chump, ask me a Shay engineering question. A good question will give you something from my collection. If I can not answer the question or know where the answer is located, then I will give you a copy of my articles "The Nuts and Bolts of Shays".
https://allencountymuseum.org/event/celebration-of-our-shays-100th-birthday/
Cheers Dan
crueby:
Happy birthday to the Shay!
CI:
Thanks for posting that info.
I am a longtime fan of the Shay locomotives.
A funny story, I was at an my wife's cousin's house years ago, and noticed a photo of a locomotive on the wall.
I asked about it, and they said "Yes, my husband's dad ran a lumber company, and they had two of those".
I did not know anything about a Shay at the time, but I was highly impressed by the quality of the photo hanging on the wall.
Years later, I starting chatting with folks, including Dan, about Shays, and it clicked in my mind that the odd looking locomotive at my inlaw's house could be a Shay.
I called them up, asked them if I could come over and take photos, and they said yes.
Turns out it was a Lima Shay, and their family lumber company owned two of them.
And the photo on the wall turned out to be the original photo sent to the Shay owner from Lima.
Photos attached.
The Shay design is an amazing tale of ingenuity, in my opinion.
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PaulR:
--- Quote from: CI on September 12, 2025, 07:11:02 PM ---And the photo on the wall turned out to be the original photo sent to the Shay owner from Lima.
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That's quite a locomotive, even to the yes of a Brit, and love the lumber yard photo. Thanks for sharing.
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Dan Rowe:
I have a bunch of pasters, the small Lima photo with the specs on the back, but I have never seen one of the big versions. That is shop number 3296. Vestal Lumber owned 6 Shays. That is the last one that they owned.
Thanks for the photos.
Cheers Dan
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