First, a little story about the photograph. I had never seen these kinds of postcards of Fruit Growers. I had spent a lot of time at Fruit Growers headquarters in Sherman Oaks going through their archives. They did not have this in their collection, nor was there any documentation about the postcards being manufactured. As it turns out, an individual in Australia has taken old photographs of locomotives and produces postcards, which I purchased this on Ebay.

Fruit Growers had two Shay locomotives on the Lassen Operation. The No. 5 was purchased in 1924 from the McCloud River Lumber Company. According to. railroad historian David F. Myrick, he indicates that the No.5 was no longer in service by 1949. Three years later, Fruit Growers would discontinue railroad logging.

Tim