William L. Daney started building locomotives in 1925. He built two of the pacific’s owned by the Tipsico Lakeshore. His first, TLS No. 688, was started in 1922 and finished in 1925. His largest 1-1/2” scale pacific, TLS No. 147, was built in 1936.
William L. Daney from Pueblo, colorado, visits The tipsico lakeshore for the 40th anniversary in 1987, seeing the heavy pacific in operation for the first time since building it in 1936.