Twin Tree Lumber Company 2-6-0 "Mogul" Locomotives in the USA

Class Chas. 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). Works number was 41516 in June 1914.

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?

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.