An absolute pleasure, Lynette, ONE HELL of a lot of work, sourcing photos alone has been done over the course of the last two years, the 8mm films in the last 5 months and 6 days of videography at the forest museum since BC day long weekend of this year. A full week to video edit/create slideshow and put all of 36 minutes of video together. THIS project officially taxed the computer's resources, :D But- I did it largely for the family relations and also so a few people have an idea of where and how some of the Hillcrest Shay #1's origins laid. Regards and many thanks,
Final draft will be posted this evening or early tomorrow morning- it was worth it to be ripped apart and re-done with some name corrections here and there on photos... ;) Thx Sandy!
It is indeed, ;) it was converted to Narrow gauge in Hillcrest's machine shop in 1963 specifically for the forest museum. The whole track at the Forest museum is narrow gauge.
ALSO- as per the previous comment I just made about the conversion of this locomotive to narrow-gauge, you might find this interesting- my hillcrest collection of restored photos which show a few of this locomotive when it came back from the Osborne Bay Wharf Company back to the Hillcrest Lumber company mill in mesachie (amongst many others) - www.flickr.com/photos/198773339@N04/albums/72177720315046435
Very well done. Thank you.
Good job on the project and good luck
An absolute pleasure, Lynette, ONE HELL of a lot of work, sourcing photos alone has been done over the course of the last two years, the 8mm films in the last 5 months and 6 days of videography at the forest museum since BC day long weekend of this year. A full week to video edit/create slideshow and put all of 36 minutes of video together. THIS project officially taxed the computer's resources, :D But- I did it largely for the family relations and also so a few people have an idea of where and how some of the Hillcrest Shay #1's origins laid. Regards and many thanks,
Great job Nigel.
Final draft will be posted this evening or early tomorrow morning- it was worth it to be ripped apart and re-done with some name corrections here and there on photos... ;) Thx Sandy!
Isn't that Shay narrow gauge?!??
Help me out here!!
It is indeed, ;) it was converted to Narrow gauge in Hillcrest's machine shop in 1963 specifically for the forest museum. The whole track at the Forest museum is narrow gauge.
ALSO- as per the previous comment I just made about the conversion of this locomotive to narrow-gauge, you might find this interesting- my hillcrest collection of restored photos which show a few of this locomotive when it came back from the Osborne Bay Wharf Company back to the Hillcrest Lumber company mill in mesachie (amongst many others) - www.flickr.com/photos/198773339@N04/albums/72177720315046435
Ohhhh!!! I guess that's why Hillcrest Climax #9 is on a disconnected track and kept in the barn!
@@tomlebudzinski7716 Yes, also in dire need of some new parts. ;)