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Locomotives

  Locomotive Type   Cylinders   Drivers   BP  Tractive Force   Weight on Drivers  Total Wt. Engine Builder Number  Date 
1 Jumbo 0‑4‑0OTG   8x12  35 110        Vulcan  11  1869 
2 Daisy 0‑4‑2T 12x18 37 150 10,510    40,000 Baldwin 7558  1885 
3 Smilax    2‑6‑2T 14x18  37   200  16,210    76,000  BLW  13905  1894 
4 Hercules  Climax* 15x16  35   175      108,000*      
                90,000* Climax 449  1903   
5 Trojan 2‑6‑6‑2 13&19x2O  37  200  21,950 104,000 122,000 BLW 34875  1910
6 The Shay 2T Shay  8x1O  29 160  12,200  57,000 57,000 Lima  3017    1918
7 Samson  2‑6‑6‑2 13&2Ox2O  37   220 24,100 113,700 129,000 BLW     57894  1924
8 8‑Spot 2‑2‑0   4 cyls.  20   ‑     ‑    ‑    ‑      Federal Truck   c. 1920

             *Hercules built as 3‑truck Climax and later converted to 2‑truck. Presumably the heavier weight was original.

Woods Equipment

Number Description
1 "Swamping Donkey" presumably for initial clearing of areas.
   
8 Browning locomotive crane ("steam shovel and crane").
   
2‑9, 11, 13   "Steam donkeys"
   
10 Skidder (used in skyline logging).
   
12, 14-16 Steam yarders (to haul logs from stump to landing).
  Two dump cars at mill.
  Ten new "log cars" built during the year.
  One bottom‑dump ballast car (from HHRR).
  One ballast spreader (bob truck with old tie fastened in front of wheels to spread ballast when shoved).
  (Other Rail Equipment Mentioned)
  One cattle car for hauling company stock (ca. 1920s)
  Unknown quantity regular 8‑wheel flatcars for tanbark carrying and for ties.
  One steel 8‑wheel flat "moving car" to transport heavy equipment.
  Two center‑dump gondolas (additional) for ballast.
  Several homemade tank cars using bob cars for trucks.
  "Log cars" (64 mentioned in 1924 report, each probably being a set of two disconnects).
   

Marine Equipment

Sailing Schooners

Name Specifications History
  Sailing Schooners  
Cora  155 tons    Built at Port Orchard, Wash., 1867. Wrecked at Caspar 4‑13‑83
Elvenia  148 tons    Built at Fairhaven, 1872. Dashed on rocks at Caspar, 4‑24‑97
    kept afloat by load; pulled off and towed to San Francisco by
    steamer, but could not be repaired.
Abbie  146 tons, 98 ft. long, 29.7 ft. wide

 Built at Fairhaven, 1876.
Maxim 117 tons, 92 ft.

Built at Fairhaven, 1876. Wrecked January 1907

Steam Schooners (Wooden)

Name Specifications History
Caspar 300 tons, 1321/2 ft. x 33 ft. x 11 ft.

Built at San Francisco, 1888. Wrecked in fog on Sanders Reef
  150 hp  near Point Arena, 10‑22‑97.
Jewel 265 tons, 134 ft. 150 hp  Wrecked at Caspar 1‑13‑99
Samoa 377 tons, 151 ft. 350 hp Built in San Francisco, 1898. Purchased 1902 from Beadle S.S.
    Co. Wrecked at Point Reyes 1‑28‑13.
South Coast  301 tons, 131 ft. 150 hp

Built in San Francisco, 1887. Purchased 1903 from R. Hanify
   

Co. Sold in 1917.
Caspar(2nd)   648 tons. 175 ft. x 38.3 ft. x 12.4 ft.

Built in Aberdeen, Wash., 1907. Purchased 1911 from J.H.  Fritch. Sold 1930.
  450 hp  
Excelsior  526 tons, 175.5 ft. 366 hp.   

Built at Eureka, 1893. Purchased 1915‑16. Sunk at San Francisco 2‑7‑16.
Lakme 529 tons

Built at Port Madison, Wash., 1888. Purchased 1916 from Charles Nelson,
   

Scrapped 1927.

Steam Schooner (Steel)

Name Specifications History
Nushagak  (see following entry)  
Caspar(3rd) 739 tons. 175.5 ft. x 34 ft. x 14.5 ft. Built at Alameda, 1904. Purchased 1925 from Alaska Packers Assn.
    Was the Nushagak. When second Caspar was sold in 1930,
     it became third Caspar. Laid up March 1939 and taken over by U.S. Army
     during Second World War.
     
   

Seventy years of marine operations came to an end when the third Caspar

   

was laid up in March 1939. From January 13, 1919, to December 3, 1928, they

   

had been carried on by Remco S.S. Co., a subsidiary of Caspar Lumber Co.

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