Hecla & Torch Lake No. 3

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Hecla & Torch Lake No. 3 is an 0-6-4T built by the Mason Machine Works in 1873.
This engine began its service life on the Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad, which was a copper hauling line in northern Michigan. The Torch Lake was converted from narrow gauge to U.S. standard gauge, when the locomotive was brought the Greenfield Village in the fall of 1968.
In 1969, the Torch Lake began passenger service for the railroad. From 1969 to 1997, it was the oldest regularly operating steam locomotive in the United States when it ran on the Greenfield Village.
== Trivia ==
* From 1997 to 2002, it had to have a major boiler overhaul.
* On July 26, 2002, the locomotive went back into daily passenger service for the Greenfield Village Railroad.
* This locomotive is what is known as a "Mason Bogie", built by Mason Machine Works.
* Mason built 146 Bogies, 88 of them were narrow gauge locomotives and all were built of various wheel arrangements. The railroad that ordered the most Bogies was the Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynn, eventually owning 32 engines of 2-4-4T wheel arrangement.
* No. 3 is the last operating Mason Bogie locomotive in the world.
== Gallery ==
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