The good news is that Carl Wassink of Corry Pennsylvania read my earlier post regarding Betsy, Shawnigan Like Lumber Co.’s locomotive. The bad news is that a lot of information was incorrect, and so my thanks to Carl for putting the record straight.
“In looking through your site I came across the photo and your article about “Betsy”. I was interested and wanted to read the story. In doing so I came to the belief and conclusion that there are several errors in the article, mostly in the inserted copy of the 1947 magazine article by Gerry Wellburn.
To come to the following understanding of the timeline and history of the engines at Shawnigan Lake, it has taken the comparison of stories as told and written by four separate individuals who were there at the time, during the period from 1902 to 1918… reading only one of them leads you to come up with a somewhat different interpretation…”
