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This 60 ton oil burning Baldwin 280 Locomotive hauled borate ore from the mines at Ryan to the mill and main line railroad at Death Valley Junction from 1916 until the railroad was abandoned in 1931. At that time it was sent to the United States Potash Co. in Carlsbad NM where it carried ore from mine to refinery for 25 years.
In 1956 it was given to this Museum by the United States Potash Co. , now a division of the United States Borax & Chemical Corporation. |