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much appreciate." The McNair Timber Company railroad was solidly built, much of it being constructed on heavy timber cribwork, as the photographs show. Rather than use logging cars or trucks, the McNairs intended to trail the logs of cedar and fir between the rails. A 45-ton Heisler was ordered for the purpose. The two-truck locomotive, N/N 1103, was built in November of 1906 and had 15 1/2 x 12" cylinders and 40" drivers. It was moved from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Vancouver on its own wheels, coupled into a train. Final delivery of the locomotive, by scow towed out through the First Narrows and across the inlet, was complicated by the fact that the pier to receive the engine was only partly constructed. The inexperience of the work crew under the foreman James Mattison combined with the changing state of the tide to delay landing until after dark. "It as 9 o'clock at night," the Province relates, "when, by the light of lanterns, the locomotive, with an emphatic puff of two of its exhausts, steamed onto the temporary pier, thus closing operations for that night." By four the next afternoon, Monday, June 2, the Heisler had been transferred to the logging railroad proper and was making its way, slowly and cautiously, to the upper camp. There the crew took time for a well-earned meal. Subsequent events are described by the Province: "...after supper, it was determined to try conclusions with a downgrade trip, and the start was made with several interested spectators in the cab besides the driver, and an expert from the engine company, who had control of the