Jackson Lumber Company 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" Locomotives in the USA

Class Dixie (Locobase 13240)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 23, p. 242. See also [], last accessed 11 October 2011. Works numbers 18726 in March 1901.

Jackson Lumber was based in Lockhart, Ala, just "a rock's throw" from the Florida border (and adjacent to Florala, Fla). According to the 2003 Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES) account, the town was laid out with all the amenities. "Everything imaginable was provided -- a mill, a park, a well-stocked mercantile store, gleaming white houses and even tree-lined streets ....Truly unique."

"Still, like all lumber towns," the ACES article continues, "Lockhart was a "cut-out-and-get-out" operation from the very start.

"'They figured they had about 40 years of timber, virgin timber, to be cut,' recalls Belinda Carnley, a community activist and lifelong Lockhart resident. "And they were right on the money."

The 5 was scrapped in 1942.