Data from "Locomotive Building," The Railroad Gazette, Vol XLIII, No 11 (13 September 1907), p 307. Works number was 776 in March 1908
This little Consolidation went to work for the Eagle Lumber Company railway that was based in Ouachita, Ark and connected Eagle Mills with Princeton, Ark. (RG's notice gave Eagle Mills, Louisiana, for some reason). The FVR operated from 1904 to 1927.
Locomotive rebuilder/reseller Georgia Car & Locomotive bought the 7 and gave it stock #550. GC&L sold the engine to JW McWilliams Company, Inc in Fort Myers, Fla in August 1925, but the buyer returned it in the same month. Now GC&L 605, the 7 languished on the stock list until at least June 1937 and may have been scrapped without another sale.
Two other DLW Consolidations with similar power dimensions (cylinder bore & stroke, wheel diameter, and boiler pressure) went to other railroads,
Works 871 started out on the Dakota Western of Mystic, SD in 1908.
The DW sold the engine to the Iowa & Illinois Railway in 1912, which gave it road #72. (Established in Clinton, Iowa in 1901, the I&I mainline ran 46.91 miles/75.5 km from Clinton to Davenport, Ia).
The interurban Clinton, Davenport & Muscatine bought the I&I in 1916;72 went to the Pine Bluff, Sheridan & Southern in 1915.
Two years later in 1917, 72 landed on the Caddo & Choctaw as #6, and found its lasting home with Crossett Lumber, where it remained until retirement in May 1947.
According to the TreeTexas website at [], last accessed 3 October 2026, Southern Lumber Company of Myrtistown, La bought works 1126 in October 1913 and put it to work as #3 on the bankrupt Black Bayou tramroad. When the SLC took over the tramroad in 1910, it replaced the 35 lb/yard (17.5 kg/metre) tram road rail with 60 lb/yard (30 kg/metre). SLC operated the BB between the Myrtistown mill and the ex-Barber Lumber Company sawmill at Ruliff, Tex.
| Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media | |
|---|---|
| Class | 7 |
| Locobase ID | 11423 |
| Railroad | Freeo Valley Railway |
| Country | USA |
| Whyte | 2-8-0 |
| Number in Class | 1 |
| Road Numbers | 7 |
| Gauge | Std |
| Number Built | 1 |
| Builder | Davenport |
| Year | 1908 |
| Valve Gear | Stephenson |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) | |
| Engine Wheelbase (ft / m) | |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase | |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) | |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg) | |
| Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg) | 80,000 / 36,287 |
| Engine Weight (lbs / kg) | 90,000 / 40,823 |
| Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML) | 2700 / 10.23 |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) | 3.50 / 3 |
| Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m) | 33 / 16.50 |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter (in / mm) | 48 / 1219 |
| Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa) | 160 / 1100 |
| High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm) | 16" x 24" / 406x610 |
| Tractive Effort (lbs / kg) | 17,408 / 7896.15 |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | 4.60 |
| Heating Ability | |
| Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm) | 160 - 2" / 51 |
| Flues (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
| Flue/Tube length (ft / m) | 13.67 / 4.17 |
| Firebox Area (sq ft / m2) | |
| Grate Area (sq ft / m2) | 21 / 1.95 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
| Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
| Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | 3360 |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | 3360 |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | |
| Power L1 | |
| Power MT | |