Ely-Thomas Lumber Co. No. 5

Ely-Thomas Lumber Co. No. 5 is a 2 truck Shay. It was built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1917 and it is one of thirteen Shays rostered over the years by the Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company of Webster County, WV as No. 12.
It was first used for the Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company pulling log trains.
No. 12 was sold to the Ely Thomas Lumber Company in Fenwick, WV, in 1947 and renumbered #5.
When it was retired from service in 1955, it was purchased by the railfans Harold Allen and Casimir Samborski and placed in storage in Ann Arbor, MI.
It is now a static display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
==Trivia==
*It is the only narrow gauge locomotive in the museum's collection.
*It was purchased by George Banta Jr., and donated to the museum in 1972.
==Gallery==
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Category:National Railroad Museum
Category:Steam locomotives
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Category:Logging locomotives
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Category:Built in 1917
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