This historical image, featured in A.P. Winzenried’s “Tram to Sorrento” and the N.E.
Wadeson collection, depicts a Baldwin locomotive with a 3-foot 6-inch gauge (B/N 9086
or 7556) being transported by road, reportedly pulled by 18 horses.
The locomotive was moved from the defunct Sorrento Tramway to the Loch Valley
Timber Company in Noojee sometime between 1921 and 1923 for logging operations.
It is identified as a Baldwin 0-4-0, constructed in the late 1880s.
The purpose of this relocation was to transfer the locomotives from Sorrento’s seaside
tourist operations to the heavy-duty timber hauling in the Noojee region.
The remains of the locomotive, including a rusty firebox and other components, can be
found near the beginning of the Loch Valley Tramway along the “Ralph Cornwall Walk”
in Noojee.