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(Yes, I have suggested a Baldwin logging mallet before, but that one was for a specific design.) Baldwin built multiple articulated logging mallets from 1909, up until its last one in 1937. While most were standard gauge designs, some were narrow gauge locomotives, such as Unintah 50 & 51.
Logging railroads found the mallets to be quite useful for their pulling power and ability to go around sharp curves. The first logging mallet that Baldwin built was in 1909, and that locomotive was a 2-4-4-2 for the Little River Railroad, numbered 126. Or better knows today as “Skookum”. Baldwin continued to build mallets for logging railroads up until 1937, with a 2-6-6-2T (Weyerhaeuser Timber Company 9) being the last one built by Baldwin.
Jon Davis does an excellent job at covering the Baldwin logging mallets here.: http://loggingmallets.railfan.net/list/list.htm
Should someone add logging mallets to Derail Valley, they would prove to be powerful for their size, and be able to haul heavy trains up steep grades with relative ease.
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