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Shay2 N. Amer.|ʃeɪ|
The name of Ephraim Shay (1813–1916), Amer. engineer, applied to a geared locomotive designed by him in 1874 for hauling timber.
1894J. Dredge Rec. Transportation Exhibits at World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 308/1 (heading) The Shay Locomotive. Ibid. 308/2 The Shay Locomotive Engine No. 75, on the Montana Union Railway, on December 6th, 1890, hauled a train of fifteen loaded cars up the Anaconda high line, a distance of 1½ mile on a 3½ per cent. grade..at a rate of speed equal to 4 miles per hour. 1936ABC Brit. Columbia Lumber Trade Directory 74 Elk River Timber Co., Ltd...75 Miles of Track; 5 Locos; 4 Shays. 1942R. L. Haig-Brown Timber 253 Shay, a geared locomotive, slow but powerful and adapted to heavy hauling. Shays of about 70 tons are commonly used in hauling logs from the landing to the mainline. 1953Harmac News (Vancouver, B.C.) Oct. 8/1 A 42-ton Shay was hauling logs for Wiest logging in 1914. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 135 Shay, the most popular of the geared locomotives used in the woods. The several cylinders are upright on the engineer's side of the frame, and the boiler is offset to balance them. A propeller shaft driven by cranks runs along one side of the engine and is geared to the axles. 1974Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 7 July 3/1 The 45-ton Shay (named for designer Ephraim Shay) will be replaced by a 120-ton Baldwin diesel-electric locomotive. |