FRUIT GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY
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Image, Fruit Growers Supply 2-6-0 Loco #34 Order No. FGS34I Photographer: Robert P. Morris August 21, 1950, Westwood, California: Fruit Growers Supply Company 2-6-0 locomotive #34, labeled here as #1, sits after 47 years of service for various owners. Locomotive #34 was originally built as #1 by Baldwin in 1903, under construction #23256, for the Quakertown & Eastern. It became Ocean Shore #4 in 1907. Sold to the San Vicente Lumber Company in 1922 at Santa Cruz. It operated until 1928 at Cromberg for the Nibley-Stoddard Lumber Company. In 1928 it was sold to Fruit Growers Supply and saw service on the Red River Lumber Co. at Westwood, California. Weight - 91,000 lbs. Cylinders - 18" by 24" (bore & stroke) Drivers - 54" (diameter) -------------------- FGS - 2-6-2 #2
Image, Fruit Growers Supply Co. 2-6-2 #2 Order No. FGS02I Photograph by: Harold Van Horn Fruit Growers Supply Company pristine 2-6-2 locomotive #2 poses in the yard up on the Lasen Operation in Northern California.
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