Locomotive 109

Locomotives and the timber industry go together, and this locomotive is one of more than one hundred that worked in the South West for a hundred years, from 1871 to 1971. The engines were fuelled by offcuts from the sawmill. ‘109’ first worked in South Australia from 1890 until 1921 when it was brought to Western Australia. It was then put to work hauling logs in Barrabup, Nannup, Northcliffe and Pemberton until it retired in 1964.