Coos Bay Lumber Co. No. 104

No. 104 is a 2-8-2 steam locomotive that was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in December 1922. It was delivered in the spring of 1923 to the Coos Bay Lumber Company in Oregon and put to work hauling open cars of newly hewn logs in the forests of Coos County.    
No. 104 served the company until 1954 once diesels started to replace mainline steam locomotives in active service. It was kept as a standby engine until 1956 when Coos Bay Lumber Company's mill and logging operations were sold to Georgia Pacific Corp. The following year No. 104 was sent up the coast to work at the company's Toledo, Oregon operations if needed.
The locomotive became GP No. 3 and remained on standby duty until it was donated to the Coos-Curry Museum in North Bend in September, 1960. The museum group, later called the Coos County Historical Society, cared for the locomotive for the next 33 years. It became a welcoming fixture at the northern entrance to North Bend with a fence set up around it to keep people off. A large wooden structure was put up over it to protect the locomotive from the elements and a sound system was installed that had a button that visitors could push to play a recording of No. 104's whistle.
In 1999 No. 104 was turned over to the Oregon Coast Historical Railway who had plans to restore the locomotive to operational condition with the intention of having it pull excursion trains. Unfortunately those plans ultimately fell through due to disagreements over the ownership of the locomotive and the operating rights forthe track that it would have run on. It was decided that the locomotive would at least be cosmetically restored for static display in the meantime.
 No. 104 was moved to Coos Bay in 2001 where it currently resides today on display. It is unknown if it will ever return to operational status. 
Category:2-8-2 locomotives
Category:2-8-2 steam locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Logging locomotives
Category:Preserved locomotives
Category:Preserved steam locomotives
Category:Baldwin locomotives
Category:Built in 1922
Category:Tender locomotives
Category:American locomotives
Category:American steam locomotives
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives of the United States