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Owner: Oregon Pacific & Eastern
Model:Plymouth 15-ton DDTBuilt As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:3476Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Other locos with this serial:  OPE 14½(15-ton DDT) OPE 14(15-ton DDT)
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OP&E 14½
Title:  OP&E 14½
Description:  Tucked away in a corner of the Oregon Pacific & Easterns engine facility on September 15, 1979, was their shop switcher, a Plymouth DLC-6 numbered 14½. (It appears someone in the shop had some fun with the numbering!) This engine was built in May 1930 (c/n 3476) for Garfield & Company (Plymouth dealership), San Francisco, CA. It then went to Unemployed Exchange Association, San Francisco, CA, and then to Feather River Pine Mills #A. After that, it was owned by Feather River Railway, who sold it to OP&E in 1968 as their #9, later renumbered to OP&E 14½. While on the Feather River in late 1964 and early 1965, this engine was equipped with a snowplow in an unsuccessful attempt at removing silt that had built up on the line after heavy rains caused the river to back up behind the partially completed Oroville Dam. On the second day, the motor overheated and their GE 44-ton #8 was placed into service shoving the diminutive Plymouth to plow the line.
Photo Date:  9/15/1979  Upload Date: 3/2/2012 1:29:58 AM
Location:  Cottage Grove, OR
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  OPE 14½(15-ton DDT)
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