BLW-CN3638-1874

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Ordered by Eureka & Palisade Railroad with name W. L. Pritchard for original E&P owner. Name changed to Tybo soon after arrival, reflecting change in railroad ownership. Placed in service Sept. 1874. Sold June 1881 to Bodie Ry. & Lbr. Co. #1 Tybo, reconditioned by Virginia & Truckee shop crews at Carson & Colorado RR shops in Hawthorne on way to BR&L. Set up by V&T shops crews in Carson City, Hawthorn, and Bodie in Oct-Nov 1881. Railroad reorganized as the Bodie & Benton Ry. & Commercial Co. (in Jan 1882).


Locomotive sold Oct 1899 to Inyo Development Company #1 at Keeler, California. Thoroughly rebuilt by Virginia & Truckee shops in Carson City in 1902. (Baldwin construction number and class number of loco confirmed by letters between Baldwin and V&T in 1902.) Weighed at Mound House Sept 30, 1902: engine 39,100; tender 21,950, full of water and big load of wood. Believed scrapped at Inyo Development in 1926.