H H McGee 0-4-2 Locomotives in the USA

Class Logger 1 (Locobase 16477)

Data from "Details of Locomotives at the World's Columbian Exposition - Third Article", Railroad Gazette, Volume 25 (24 November 1893), pp. 848-849 and 851. See also on the estimable Mississippi Rails website at [], last accessed 3 February 2020. (Thanks to Chris Hohl for his 13 January 2020 email and well-drafted spreadsheet, the latter noting the absence of this locomotive from Locobase and providing detailed data and source information.) Works number was 1426 in November 1892.

After its appearance at the 1893 Exposition in Chicago, this little saddle-tank served no fewer than four lumber companies.

Mississippi Rails' entry conveniently summarizes the conveyances:

Baird Lumber Co. #1, Mobile, AL, in 8/1894,

Holmes Lumber Co. #1, Finchburg, AL, in 6/1902.

Flat Creek Mill Co. #1, Finchburg, AL, on 3/31/1906.

Louisell Lumber Co. #1, Richardson, MS, on 11/8/1909, and

Cybur Lumber Co. #1, Cybur, MS, in 4/8/1912.

Locobase thinks of two likely reasons for its persistent peregrination: 1) It was only satisfactory for a short time, or 2) it was just the right size for small outfits. H H McGee