2-6-0 "Mogul" Steam Locomotives in the USA

Class Charles A Sands (Locobase 13189)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 31, p.52. See also Megan Kate Nelson, Trembling Earth: A cultural history of the Okefenokee Swamp (Athens, Ga: University of Georgia Press, 2005). (Thanks to Ivo Rutishauser for his 30 August 2025 email pointing out the mistaken works number attributed to this locomotive.) Works number was 31888 in October 1907..

The specification called for this good-sized Mogul to haul 800 trailing tons up a 1 1/2% grade. The road number piques Locobase's interest: did the Twin Tree wish to hark back to the record-breaking New York Central 4-4-0, or was the assignment simply a indication that this was the one and only locomotive for this logger? (Two Glover Locomotive Works Moguls had 12" x 16" (305 x 406 mm) cylinders. One--Glover works number 121639--was the only other new locomotive on the TT. It left the factory in January 1920.)

Twin Tree Lumber's headquarters was in Maplesville, Alabama; one of its specialties was long leaf yellow pine rift flooring. Twin Tree ventured into the Okefenokee Swamp when it leased pine timber on Billys, Minnies, Honey, Blackjack and several other islands in the Okefenokee Swamp.

The railroad was abandoned in 1918, after which the 999 wound up on the Multnomah Lumber & Box. In 1923, Flora Logging purchased the engine, which then ran for two more decades before being scrapped in April 1943.