The following is a story told to Maynard Atkinson by Percy Stacy, involving a switching maneuver using the BC Forest Discovery Centre’s shay locomotive which is on display near the front entrance.
Maynard a “Railway History Enthusiast” (his own words) has worked collaboratively on several books by Sandy Macham author of Odds, Sods and Logs, and Chemainus and it Chemainus & Its Logging Railways to name a few.
Old One Spot is the nickname given to our Bloedel, Stewart & Welch No. 1 shay locomotive built in 1911 by Lima Locomotive Works.
Neil Malbon,
Collections Curator
