14699 was built by Stearns Manufacturing Co in the USA in 1922 and was purchased by the Bartholomew Land & Timber Company of Rotorua.
It is the second example of a geared logging locomotive at Ferrymead, with two cylinders inclined in a V under the boiler. These drive a shaft connected through universal joints and gears to the axles of the two 4-wheel bogies. Though not a speedy engine, their great hauling capacity made them ideally suited to lumber haulage railways.
In 1951, 14699 was purchased by Ogilvie & Co of Greymouth for use on their bush tramway. It was subsequently sold to the New Forest Sawmilling Company who donated it to the Canterbury Railway Society in 1966. It was operated at Ferrymead for awhile and is now stored.
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