Ozark Land & Lumber 2-6-2 "Prairie" Locomotives in the USA

Class 1 (Locobase 12888)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 32, p. 304 Works number was 32999 in August 1908.

A few years after it bought the 4 from Baldwin (Locobase 12888), the OL&LC returned to the Philadelphia builder for a bigger, more powerful locomotive with still smaller drivers. At some later date, the 1 operated on the Ouachita & Northwestern until that road closed in 1947. With the O & NW's demise, the Louisiana Central Lumber Company bought the 1.

Class 4 (Locobase 12887)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 28, p. 188 Works number was 27181 in December 1905.

Just down the road from the Louisiana Railway (Locobase 127850), the OL & L engaged in similar logging activities and found the small Prairie in use by so many timber companies to be an answer to their hauling needs. One difference was the use of smaller drivers, which conferred just that much more tractive effort.

Some time later the OL & L sold the 4 to the Bunker Culler Lumber Company. Still later, the locomotive rebuilder/reseller bought the 4 and sold it to the Charles W Fish Lumber Company of Monico, Wisc as their 123.