"Busy Body" & Shays

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The Lindsey Wagon Company operated a Baldwin 0-4-0T.  The construction # was 5444; and it was originally built January, 1881 with 9 X 12" cylinders and 28" drivers.

"Busy Body" was it's name. 

Baldwin sold this engine to the North Chicago Steel Company, which also called the engine "Busy Body".  The link between NCSC and Lindsey Wagon Company is unknown.  The dates of purchase and disposition are also unknown.

The John Lindsey Lumber Company utilized 2 different Shay locomotives.  According to ShayLocomotives.com, these were sn #s 290 and 1728.  A full record of these Shays can be found on their web site.

This picture of a Shay locomotive, obviously in the piney woods, was sent to my father by Mr. Larry Swofford.  Accompanying this picture is a letter discussing Shay #1728 which was owned by the Southern Iron and Equipment Company.  However, the letter states that the Shay was John Lindsey Lumber Company #3 and there is a very obvious #4 painted on the tender.  Any additional information about this photo would be appreciated.

The information about the Baldwin 0-4-0T is also from Mr. Swofford from a letter dated February 14, 1983.

Tony Howe contributed the following information:

That Baldwin 0-4-0T that Lindsey Wagon Co. had was sold by the steel mill to E. P. Burton & Co. at Charleston, S.C., then sold to the Mt. Olive Lbr. Co. at Mt. Olive, Miss., before coming to the wagon factory at Laurel.

Lindsey Lumber Co. owned at least four Shay locomotives. One early Shay was owned by the company when they were still operating the mill at Sandersville before 1900. It was a wood rail Shay that is otherwise unidentified.

The info on the two Shays on shay locomotives.com is mostly correct. For CN 290, it was only owned by Beatrice Lumber Mill at Beatrice Spur, MS, near Pachuta. There never was a Beatrice Lumber Co. at Enterprise. 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. The other Shay owned by Lindsey Lbr. was their No. 2, which was CN 1607. It was purchased from Ruby Lumber Co., Wautubbee, MS. It was built as Pine Hill Lumber Co. #5, Wautubbee, MS (wood rail); to B. C. Lumber Co., Wautubbee, MS, on 4-23-10; to Bostick Brothers, Wautubbee, MS, in 11-1912; to Ruby Lumber Co., Wautubbee, MS, on 3-14-13; to John Lindsey Lbr. Co. #2 at Laurel, then traded to Southern Iron & Equipment
Co. #1349, Atlanta, GA, on 8-24-18 as part payment on Shay #3; to Gulf Naval Stores (United Fruit Co.), New Orleans, LA, on 3-19-19.

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.

Thanks Tony!!
 

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