Little Rock, Maumelle & Western 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" Locomotives in the USA

Class 101 (Locobase 14150)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 48, p. 268. See the Tap Line Case summaries at 8

[]. for a more detailed description of this logging road. Works number was 40320 in August 1913.

The LRM & W was incorporated in 1907 to build a road from Little Rock to Cold Spring, Ark, a distance of about 25 miles. It served the interests of A J Neimeyer Lumber Company. In 1916, the railroad had 2 locomotives and 90 cars in operation. The line was rock ballasted and laid with 60 lb/yard (30 kg/metre) rail.

The Interstate Commerce Commission's Tap Line Case summary outlines the railroad succinctly: "It is important to observe that the tap line parallels the line of the Rock Island, which is at no point more than 5 miles away. The intervening country is hilly and broken. Three towns are mentioned on the record as being reached by the tap line. Becker is a sawmill settlement, its only other industries being a brick plant and the penitentiary; at Carnes there is a small hardwood mill, which cuts hard-wood lumber for the Neimeyer Lumber Company, at a charge of $3 per 1,000 feet; and Maumelle, otherwise known as Douglas, is apparently only a logging camp. There are two or three small stave shippers on the line."

The 101 didn't serve all that long as the LRM & W's Ten-wheeler--the railroad folded in 1921 when the timber stands had been harvested, a year after the engine was sold to Choctaw Lumber.