Port of Gray's Harbor No. 5

Port of Gray's Harbor No. 5 is a type of 2-8-2 'Mikado' steam locomotive. The engine was built by the H. K. Porter Company in 1924 for the Carlton & Coast Railroad. Presumably, this was the reason the Flora Logging Co. renumbered the Porter to No. 55, the road number it would retain the rest of its days on the Carlton & Coast Railroad and they also changed the engine's road number to No. 5, and when the Port switched to diesels the engine No. 5 was put up for sale.
The Porter Engine No. 5 is one of the largest Porter locomotives ever constructed, and was ordered new by the Carlton & Coast Railroad to haul logs out of the Oregon Coast Range down to the town of Carlton, Oregon.
The engine No. 5 was now restored by the MRSR in the early 1980's to take passengers on a route from Elbe to Mineral, the old tender was replaced by a Vanderbilt tender from Northwestern Pacific 4-6-0 #136 due to the original tender being heavily rusted out, and the engine became the first Mikado to operate on the Mt. Rainier Scenic RR beginning in 1986.
Back in 1989, the locomotive was running some celebratory excursions for the state of Washington the same year when SP 4449 was also participating in the same events. Later that year the Vanderbuilt-style tender had the "Great Northern Railway" logo on display for the excursion. Engine No. 5 is featured on Goodheart Productions' video "Winter Daylight".
Today, this locomotive is still at the MRSR, but has been taken out of service, and has last operated in 2003, and is awaiting funding for a complete overhaul as of 2024. Engine No. 5 originally had a 5 chime step top whistle at Carlton and Coast. This engine was then given an Ashton 6 inch 3 chime in its final years. The whistle of the engine was put on 2-8-2T #17, a 2-8-2 tank engine in 2013, and later for a short time on #70, a Baldwin 2-8-2.
==Trivia==
*The locomotive was first ordered by the Flora Logging Co., as Engine #11 in 1924 and later sold to the Carlton & Coast Railroad.
*In 1940 the C&C RR was abandoned and the big Porter engine was sold to the Port of Grays Harbor to use it in switching the docks in Hoquiam, Washington.
*In the 1950's while most steam locomotives retired and they were scrapped, engine No. 5 was more fortunate.
*An order was placed for the Porter engine and it arrived in Carlton sometime in mid 1924 and was immediately put to work.
*The original road number was No. 11 and Sometime after 1924, Flora purchased a 1914 Baldwin 2-8-2 engine (s/n 41229) that also came with the road No. 11.
*An order was placed for the Porter engine and it arrived in Carlton sometime in mid 1924 and was immediately put to work. 
*The Vanderbilt-style tender, that Engine No. 5 is using once served on the Northwestern Pacific RR in California it was acquired and it is currently used behind this unique piece of logging history.
*Because of its power and durability, Porter engine No. 5 has been one of the main workhorses for the MRSR since returning to service. It was scheduled for major undercarriage work in 2004 or 2005.
*Engine No. 5 is one of the largest locomotives built by the H. K. Porter Company in Pittsburgh, PA.
*In the fall of 1996, Engine No. 5 and Climax #10 helped rebuild a bridge pulling rock trains before the coming winter storms and were featured on "The Rock Trains" from Golden Rail Video.
*#5 has also been featured on "Awesome Trains Part 1 and 2", "I Wanna Be A Train Engineer", "Steam in the Mountains: Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad", "Steam in the West", "Geared Doubleheader", "Winter Daylight", "Washington centennial steam", "Extreme Steam", "Great trains of the west: Steam Engineer", "Great Trains of the west: Mt. Rainier scenic railroad", and a "Tracks Ahead" clip based on Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad (can be found on YouTube).
*In May 1999, 2000, and 2001, the engine doubleheaded with Hammond Lumber Co. No. 17.
*The engine was built for the Carlton & Coast Railroad in Carlton, Oregon and later went to the Port of Grays Harbor.
*By the 1920's the loggers needed larger and more powerful locomotives to haul longer trains. The Porter engine decided to try and compete in this market and began building larger 2-6-2 Prairie tender - type locomotives and then 2-8-2 Mikado tender-type locomotives.
*Engine No. 5 was retired from excursion service since 2003, and is put in storage at the Mineral repair shop in Mineral, WA, but is also hoping to be restored and returning to traffic.
*The 5 was put into the restoration shop at the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad in the spring of 2024, and they are looking to raise money to restore it back to operating condition.
==See also==
*Gallery
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