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Lima #1728

Lindsey Lumber Company

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Lindsey Shay #1728

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This is a picture of Lima #1728 at a hardwood mill, probably at Sandersville, Mississippi. [David Price]

This may be the same locomotive. David Price pointed out the similarities.

Shop Number 1728 -
[Bindle Jim sent me this information]
[http://www.shaylocomotives.com]
Built for: Cook-Day Lumber Co.
Built: 05-18-1906

Class: 20-2

Trucks: 2

Cylinders: [#-Diam x Stroke] 3 - 8 x 8
Gear Ratio: 3.071

Wheel Diam: 26.5"

Gauge: std

Boiler: [Style - Diam.] W.T. - 36"
Fuel Type: Wood

Fuel Capacity: 1 Cord

Water Capacity: 830 Gallons

Empty Weight: As built 43,200
Owners:
Cook-Day Lumber Co., #3 (?#2), Day (?Tangipahoa), LA
(6-1906) Day Lumber Co., #3, Tangipahoa, LA
(1913) Louisiana Timber Co., #3, Red Lick, MS
Red Lick Lumber Co., #3, Red Lick, MS
(12-1916) Wood-Russ Lumber Co., #1, Red Lick, MS
Southern Iron & Equip. Co. (D), #1304, Atlanta, GA
(8-24-1918) John Lindsey Lumber Co., #3, Laurel, MS
(5-1921) Lindsey Lumber Co., #3, Laurel, MS,
(6-8-1925) For sale
Hazelhurst Lumber Co., Tangipahoa, MS
Hazelhurst Lumber Co., Red Lick, MS
Disposition: Scrapped

Shay CN 1728 was built for the Cooke-Day Lumber Co. (not Cook-Day) at Day, La. (which was about a mile from Tangipahoa). It never went to Hazlehurst Lbr. Co., which never had a railroad as far as I know. [Tony Howe]

[Photograph contributed by David Price]

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