Up and At 'Em!!

It looks like this locomotive is being prepared for the day’s work by three men. There are two in the front and one on the top.

It looks like the one on the top may be adding the chemicals to stabilize the water that will preserve the integrity of the tank. When I looked up this locomotive on the internet I found that it was a uniquely built engine. Here is what I found at this website: https://www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=USA&wheel=2-6-6-2&railroad=cwpc In the Whyte Classification system it is known as a 2-6-6-2T (that makes it a tank engine, that is, it carried its own water supply instead of a tender carrying it). The number of locomotives in this class: 1. This is the only locomotive of its kind! It was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1929. It weighed 222,000 pounds with a water capacity of 2,500 gallons and the boiler pressure was rated for 200 psi. It used 1,200 gallons of oil as the fuel. The driving wheels were 44 inches in diameter. It is a Mallet engine (you can see both cylinders); the high pressure cylinder was 16” in diameter with a 24 inch stroke; the low pressure cylinder was 26” in diameter with a 24 inch stroke. The tractive effort was 34,436 pounds. The post card has a reminder written on the front that it is part of the collection of G. Anderson. When I look up G. Anderson, all I find is a photographer that specialized in things of the Mormon Church. There is nothing that says he spent time in Oregon photographing trains. The locomotive belonged to Crown-Williamette (sic.). This is what I found about the Crown-Willamette Paper Company: https://www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=USA&wheel=2-6-6-2&railroad=cwpc The Crown-Willamette Paper Company was formed in 1914 when the Crown Columbia Paper Company merged with the Willamette Pulp and Paper Company. (By the way, it is pronounced to rhyme with "damn it"; my wife and I have visited there and that is how they taught us how to pronounce Willamette) The Crown Columbia Paper Company was itself the result of a merger in 1905 between the Crown Paper Company of Oregon City and the Columbia River Paper Company of Camas, established by Henry Pittock in 1883 to supply newsprint for his newspaper, the Oregonian. The Crown-Willamette Paper Company had headquarters in San Francisco and Portland and paper plants in a number of cities and towns across Washington, Oregon, and California. These towns included Astoria, Lebanon, West Linn, Oregon City and Seaside in Oregon, Cathlamet and Camas in Washington, and Floristan and Truckee in California. In 1928, the Zellerbach Corporation of San Francisco merged with the Crown-Willamette Paper Company to form the Crown Zellerbach Corporation, which by the 1930s, became the largest paper company on the West Coast and the second largest in the United States. The mill at Camas, Washington was one of Crown Zellerbach's leading producers and became the largest speciality paper mill in the world.

This post card is a "Real Photo" post card. You can see that by looking at the back of the card. It was printed on Kodak Paper and the words "Photo Post Card" are at the top. I figure that this post card had to be made after 1950. The little square where the stamp is to placed gives that away.