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Lindsey Lumber Company

Lindsey Shay #1607

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Lindsey Shay #290

Lindsey Eight Wheel Log Wagon

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From a variety of sources, it seems that the Lindsey Lumber Company, located in Sandersville, Mississippi, owned 3 Shay locomotives. Lindsey Lumber Company was the birthplace of the Lindsey 8 Wheel Log Wagon.

All three of the documented Shays were 36" gauge. When Lindsey Lumber Co. moved out to Taylorsville, MS around 1925, they built a logging railroad northward along the Leaf River. I think that logging railroad may have been standard gauge, but there are no records to show what locomotives were used at this operation. [Tony Howe]

Lima #290 with the Lindsey family gathered around it.

Probably Lima #1728 with a train of logs at the hardwood mill.

Lima #1607 Shay at Southern Iron & Equipment.

I would like to thank David Price [photographs], Tony Howe [information], and Bindle Jim [information] for most of the content of these pages. I was able to ask for information and receive it from these fine folks through the 4L List, The Loyal Legion of Logged-on Loggers on Yahoo.

[Photographs contributed by David Price]

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