Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" Locomotives in the USA

Class 8 (Locobase 14346)

Data from DeGolyer, Vol 53, pp. 367-368. See also the WikiProject ICC Valuations entry for the TAG at [],_Alabama_and_Georgia_Railroad. About North Georgia Works numbers were 43571-43572 in June 1916.

See Locobase 12899 for a brief summary of the TAG Route from its opening as the Chattanooga Southern. The north Georgia short line was headquartered in Alton Park, Tenn. It had opened a 2.6 mile branch to Coe in 1903, but by the time these locomotives were delivered, both the Coe Branch and the shorter Hillside branch had been closed. This left 91.04 miles of track, of which 86.16 miles (138.7 km) linked the Tennessee-Georgia state line with Gadsden, Ala.

If the #8 had a career after its service on the TAG, Locobase hasn't unearthed it. The TAG sold the 9 to locomotive rebuilder/reseller Birmingham Rail & Locomotive, which sold it to in February 1923 to the Mississippi Eastern. The ME operated the 9 for eleven years before selling it to the Okolona, Houston & Calhoun City of Houston, Miss in 1934. The OH&CC sent it onto Cornell Young, which sold it in 1940 to Buffalo Union Carolina.