Morrissey, Fernie & Michel

The MF&M was an original owner, it acquired a single DS4-4-660 new from Baldwin.
Built at Eddystone, this was the first standard-line production Baldwin diesel exported to Canada.

DS4-4-660

Photograph by Walter E. Frost
Vancouver, BC - July 3, 1965
Source: City of Vancouver Archives, item: CVA 447-1595

MF&M #1

DS4-4-660
c/n 73042, b/d 11/1946

- ordered by the Crows Nest Pass Coal Co. of Michel, BC for their Morrissey, Fernie & Michel Railway as #1
- line abandoned 1958

to Johnston Terminals of New Westminster, BC in 1964, *
their terminal was located adjacent to Vancouver's Drake street yard

to Delta Alaska Terminal, Delta, BC as DAT 1

Photos by: RGH
- collection of M.P. McILwaine
Vancouver, BC - Feb. 8, 1976

- terminal closed 1978

sold to Seattle & North Coast's partners, 1979 **

photo by: Unknown
- collection of Thomas Hillebrant
Tacoma, WA - June 1980

- not used on the S&NC, leased to the port of Tacoma
- painted as North Coast Lines 51
- later solid green, lettered SNCT 51

leased to Publishers Paper Co. Newburg, OR, 1981 ***

used on the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad, 1982

moved to Sacramento for storage at the CSRM (Califorina State Railroad Museum)

used on the Napa Valley Railroad for track work

photo by: K.N.Annett
- collection of M.P. McILwaine
Napa, CA - May 21, 1988

traction motors were damaged while on a ballast train

donated to the Feather River Rail Society, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola CA, 1990

photos by: Thomas Hillebrant
Portola, CA - July, 2007

"This is the locomotive that first turned me on to Baldwin Diesels when I saw a small B/W shot of it as NCL 51 in a 1981 Trains article – I was pretty thrilled to find in still in one piece so many years later." - Thomas Hillebrant

declared surplus by the Western Pacific Railroad Museum, 2015 ****

sources:
* Old Time Trains

** Trains Magazine - Oct. 1981
*** Feather River Rail Society Train Sheet archives

, Issue No. 46 - Nov/Dec 1990
*** CLASS III Shortlines

**** Railroad.net

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Thanks to Thomas Hillebrant for help with rounding up these sources

The copyrights for all photos are assumed to rest with the photographers.

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