Class 1/Odd (Locobase 9379)

Data from SAL 1907 locomotive diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. See also "Williamsburg Lumber Co." on the Mississippi Rails website at [], last accessed 30 June 2019. Gene Connelly's Porter locomotive list suggests that this engine was the one described in the SAL diagram book. He singles out works number 2237 in August 1900, but considers the identification as not fully proved.

Williamsburg Lumber was based in Collins, Miss. It took down and milled longleaf yellow pine, "specializing in kiln dried flooring, ceiling and finishing as well as car sills and bridge timbers up to 50 feet long." Mill capacity was 60,000 board feet/day.

The little Forney-style apparently was sold before March 1908. If Connelly is correct, the engine's final operator was the Seaboard Air Line Columbia Belt

Engine 1000 is described as a "6 Weel [sic] Dummy"; the name is cleaned up for 1001 (Locobase 15817). Locobase doesn't know what such a vehicle might be, but supposes it was the early equivalent of a high railer track-inspection locomotive.

A funny note on the 1918 version of 1000's entry reads:

"DESTROYED" [signature] 5/20/1914

"Do Not Put in Book"

Clearly, someone didn't follow directions very well ...

By the time of 1000's "destruction", it was rolling on 41" drivers and generating 5,370 lb of tractive effort.

Class Belle West (Locobase 11770)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 9, p. 244. Baldwin works number was 4947 in January 1880. See also the estimable Georgia Railroad History at [] and []

According to Gene Connelly's Baldwin list, this Forney-type locomotive was ticketed for the Macon & Brunswick in Georgia, but he also shows that it was delivered to the CI & RR. The Cherokee operated over 46 miles of track southeast of Rome, Ga between Cartersville and Esom Hill. And the specs show that it was lettered for the CI & RR.

In 1882, the East & West of Alabama Railway leased the Cherokee to supplement its other trackage, In 1886, the E & W bought the line outright, but financial troubles led to its entering receivership in 1888.

When that line converted to standard gauge in 1891, the 3 went on to Thomas Carlin & Sons Lumber Company in Pennsylania. Finally, some time later, Carlin let the engine go to F A Maselli Contractor in Rochester, NY.

Class J Hill/Odd (Locobase 15817)

Data from SAL 1907 locomotive diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works number was 1865 in 1889.

Engine 1000 (Locobase 9379) is described as a "6 Weel [sic] Dummy"; the name is cleaned up for 1001. Locobase doesn't know what such a vehicle might be, but supposes it was the early equivalent of a high railer track-inspection locomotive.