First rail locomotive used at Townsend, Circa 1904

TitleFirst rail locomotive used at Townsend, Circa 1904

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Descriptive Information0-4-0 tank type. This was the first locomotive used at Townsend. It was used in the yards and as the first road engine. Bought from Penn. RR and sold to Conasauga Lbr. Co. #1 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive with tender from some other engine. Sawn lumber would indicated mill was in operation. Note log cars under construction in foreground. No evidence of this engine having been in wreck yet. #1 served as road engine until 1904 as well as a yard switcher. S.P. McMeil, interview by Bill Hooks, date unknown; in atchives; Xcpt. p.12; Now that No. 1 was a peculiar type. It didn't have pony trucks on it. It turned over down here in the river, right above Hatcher cut there (Davis cut). And it was never used very much after that. It was only bought as a work train. But they got to go using it everywhere.Locomotive No. 1- Little River Lumber Co. III-L-4179, History - Logging, Lumbering, Hewing, Sawmilling

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