The Lyon, Ormsby and Storey
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:12 am
I was doing more research on the Calistoga steam locomotive and discovered that it was not built for the original Napa Valley Railroad but rather was built for the California Pacific (supposedly Cal-P #2 although there seems to be some conflict on that). According to the only source I had the Calistoga was built by Booth & Co. in 1859, and, after some research I discovered this to be a San Francisco based firm who's real name was Union Iron Works. It turns out that the engine was actually built in 1869 just before they built the three mogals for the V & T. The Union Iron Works page; http://web.mac.com/vtlyon/iWeb/The%20Ly ... story.html has a good deal of data on these engines and one good sketch of the Storey. Hopefully this might be of some use to you.