Class 1 (Locobase 15255)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 72, p.66. Works number was 57599 in January 1924.

This sugar grower's railway had been built to the 30" gauge, but apparently was widened later on. Even at the 1,000-mm width, however, rail weights still came in at 35 lb/yard (17.5 kg/meter), grades pitched up at a maximum 4%, and curve radii were as tight as 131 feet (39.9 metres).

The 1 kept its number and gaiined a name--Bayaney-- when sold to the Central Bayaney. Sometime later, the 1 was sold to the Ponce & Guayama and renumbered 13. See Locobase 14769 for a brief description of the P&G.

Class 10 (Locobase 11089)

Data from Logging Locomotives 1913 (Philadelphia, Pa: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1913), p 21. See also DeGolyer, Volume 36, pp. 130+. See also Harry E Downer, History of Davenport and Scott Counties, Iowa, Volume II (Chicago: S J Clarke, 1910), p. 20; O H "Doogie" Darling and Don C Bragg, "The Early Mills, Railroads, and Logging Camps of the Crossett Lumber Company", Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Voume LXVII [67], No 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 107-140; Don C Bragg and Michael G Shelton, "Lessons from 72 years of monitoring a once cut pine-hardwood stand on the Crossett Experimental Forest", Forest Ecology and Management 261 (2011), pp. 911-922; and Don C Bragg, "History on the Road: A Mapped History of the Crossett Experimental Forest", Forest History Today (Fall 2012), archived at [], last accessed 20220620 .Works number was 35870 in January 1911.

Crossett (of Crossett, Ark) specified for this logging Consolidation that its "boiler design be given special attention to insure [sic] free-steaming qualities." The boiler seems somewhat larger than merely adequate, heating surface to grate ratio is within a good range, and the tube cross-section also suited the requirements. Track weights amounted to just 45 lb/yard (22.5 kg/metre) and the line's ruling grade reached 1.5%.

For a logging engine, the 10 had relatively tall drivers because Crossett ran this Consolidation in common-carrier service until that road closed in 1925, at which point the lumber company sold the engine to Fordyce Lumber Company. They in turn sold it to the Ashley, Drew & Northern.

A biographical entry in Harry Downer's local history recounts the life of Edward Savage Crossett. After his great success in helping to found the timber industry in Arkansas, Crossett adopted a remarkably progressive stand:

"In the principle of cooperation Mr. Crossett has always been interested. With William Morris, its modern apostle [and well-known as the father of the Arts and Crafts movement in art and architecture], he has believed that the profits accruing from any enterprise should in some equitable way be divided among those producing them. In 1899 the Crossett Lumber Company was organized on a cooperative basis, not as the result of any dreaming of a modern Utopia, but as a business proposition, and partly no doubt because of his own long bout with the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." In the cooperative organization Messrs. Crossett, Watzek and Gates held three-fourths of the stock and certain employes the other one-fourth. In recognition of Mr. Crossett's generosity, his fine sense of justice in this self-centered age, and of his wise council and

cooperation always so freely given, his associates named the new town in his

honor, and Crossett, Arkansas, came upon the map."

In the 1920s, visits by Yale forestry researchers Chapman and Bryant persuaded Crosset Lumber's "Cap" Gates, to adopt a more conservation-minded approach to lumbering. The hiring of a professionally trained forester led to promotion of "perpetual" management practices. Don C Bragg's article describes both Crossett's early steps and the Southern Forest Experimental Station's Russell R Reynolds's early 1930s intensification of such efforts. Bragg and Shelton discuss results of a three-quarters of a century of monitoring one such effort.