Basic Magnesium


GSM 1000
Baldwin photo #12282
Basic Magnesium 101

VO660
c/n 64250, b/d 4/1942

- built for the Defense Plant Corp., as Basic Magnesium 101, for switching the Basic Magnesium plant Henderson, NV (maybe renumbered 1000)
- following the plant closure at end of the war, sold (or leased) to the contractor General Shea Pacific Co. as #1000 [6] used to construct the Eagle Mountain Mine RR
- used by General-Shea-Morrison Co. of Seattle, WA. (the consortium of companies hired to built the Hungry Horse Dam) as GSM 1000 from 1948 to 1953
- sold to the Willamina & Grand Rhonde RR, which became
the Longview, Portland & Northern in 1955
- became Longview Portland and Northern #1001
- scrapped by 1975

data souces:
  • bibliography [6] & [11]
  • Orange Empire Railway Museum newsletter, March 2016


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