Power type Steam Configuration 2-6-0 Fuel type Wood Year built 1875 Added to NRHP 1 May 1981 | Total produced 2 Gauge 3 ft (914 mm) Area 4,000 m² Builder Baldwin Locomotive Works Build date 1875 | |
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Loco weight 26 short tons (24 t; 23 long tons) Current owner Nevada State Railroad Museum | ||
1875 locomotive the glenbrook
The Glenbrook is a 2-6-0, Mogul type, narrow gauge steam railway locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1875 for the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company's 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad.
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The glenbrook steams again
History
The Glenbrook and its sister, #2, The Tahoe were built to haul cordwood and lumber from Glenbrook, Nevada on the east shore of Lake Tahoe to Spooner Summit, at the crest of the Carson Range. At the summit, the logs and lumber was put in a flume which carried it to the south end of Carson City. There it was loaded onto flatcars of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad which carried it to Virginia City for use in construction of the town, as mine props, and as boiler fuel.
It is also probable that the locomotive was used on a second C&TL&F line, which ran south from Bijou, California, at the south end of the lake, about 7 miles (11 km) to Meyers, California. Logs carried by the Bijou line were rafted across the lake to Glenbrook.
The area was fairly well logged out by 1890 and the Bliss family, the owners sold The Tahoe to the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad (NCNG). In 1899, they took up the two lines and barged all of the equipment and rails to Tahoe City, California, on the northwest shore of the lake. From there they built a new railroad about 22 miles (35 km) to the Southern Pacific Railroad station at Truckee, California, just east of Donner Pass. The new line, the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation (LTR&T) carried freight and passengers and connected with the 169-foot (52 m) lake steamer SS Tahoe. The Bliss family sold the LTR&T to the Southern Pacific in 1926. The larger road immediately converted its new branch to standard gauge.
The Bliss family had kept #1 out of the sale and stored it at Tahoe City until 1937 when they sold it to the Nevada County Narrow Gauge, which used it largely for parts for Tahoe. The NCNG shut down in 1942, but Hope Bliss convinced her family to buy the locomotive back from the NCNG and presented it to the Nevada State Railroad Museum where it is now undergoing major work. It was announced that it would go back into service in May 2015 and was unveiled to the public on 23 May 2015.
The Glenbrook was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.