Frost-Johnson Lumber Company 2-8-2 "Mikado" Locomotives in the USA

Class 45 (Locobase 14945)

Data from DeGolyer, Volume 65, pp. 126+. See also "With Frost at Nacogdoches", Gulf Coast Lumberman, 1 February 1938, archived in the Texas Transporation Archives at [], last accessed 3 December 2022..Works number was 56726 in June 1923.

One of the first non wood-burners on the F-J system, the 45 burned oil instead. Moreover, since the engine was superheated, the design adopted 10" (254 mm) piston valves for steam admission.

Soon after its arrival, the 45 transferred to Frost Lumber's Nacogdoches, Texas site, which FLC bought from Hayward Lumber Company in 1910 after the latter built the mill bigger and better following a 1909 fire.At the time of the 1938 article, the author described the site's current status:

"They still have large stumpage holdings of their own, and in addition are daily offered large quantities of excellent logs for sale, that are hauled from all parts of the Nacogdoches territory. Like most of the big mills of this territory, so great has this business become that they have arranged suitable unloading facilities and docks for trucks bringing in logs. That they will be operating for many years is already certain."

The 45 operated until scrapped there in 1950, presumably because the boom in business had ended..