MTMW No6
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Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods No 6

This is a Porter 0-4-0T that was build in 1906 Carrying builder number 3483.  She carried 150 pounds of boiler pressure and exerted 6800 pounds of tractive effort.  She had 30 inch drivers, 10x16 inch cylinders and weighed 36,ooo pounds.  She was sold in 1915 and became no 2 of the Guy Atkinson Construction Company, working out of their equipment yard in Oakland.  She was scrapped in 1944.

No 6 pulling the Lee Street local at Lee Street Station in 1806.

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This shot shows Engineer Bonner Whitcomb and Conductor Cliff Graves shortly after No 6 went into service in 1906.

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This and the next photos show No 6 at the Lee Street platform.

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Now wearing No 2, the former No 6 is now wearing Guy Atkinson Company lettering.  She served the construction company from 1915 to 1944.

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Drawings by Clifford Grandt - 1982.

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View through No 6's rear cab.
Front view.
 

 

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