Locomotives
Two steam engines were used on the line during construction of the dam – the German built loco Eigiau (Orenstein & Koppel, No. 5668 of 1913, latterly at Penrhyn Quarry, and a Bagnall 0-4-0ST, Works No.2080 of 1918.
Upon completion of the dam, and with only maintenance work being envisaged, Eigiau was taken off, pending sale, and a Simplex diesel loco, Motor Rail 22154 Dolgarrog was acquired in 1922. This was later used in the 1970s to lay power cables alongside the Llanberis Lake Railway, this being followed by a spell on display in the Dolgarrog Power Station Museum, together with some wagons from the tramway.
"Dolgarrog" is currently on loan from Innogy – owners of Dolgarrog Power station, and in whose colours it is painted – and is being used by the revived Welsh Highland Railway in the reconstruction of the narrow gauge line from Caernarfon to Porthmadog. This loan to the WHR is not without precedent – back in 1922/3 the original Welsh Highland construction contractors also made use of a steam locomotive which had previously been used here, namely the Bagnall.
In 1936 a new diesel tractor was acquired, a Simplex (Hibbert, No.1988 of 1936) and this was replaced by new Motor Rail tractor, No.22154 of 1962.
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“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)