Tony Howe Railroad Art

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Gulf Coast Rebel at Vinegar Bend

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The southbound “Gulf Coast Rebel” of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio RR rounds a curve at Vinegar Bend, Alabama, on its way from St. Louis to Mobile in 1950.

 

Queen & Crescent at Hattiesburg

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Train number 43, the southbound “Queen & Crescent Limited” of the Southern Railway, makes its daily station stop at the depot in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in late summer of 1939. The depot was completed in 1909 to serve the New Orleans & Northeastern and New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago Railroads.

 

Brush Creek Bridge

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Illinois Central 4-8-2 Number 2304 crosses Brush Creek Bridge with the southbound Seminole in 1948. This bridge, located northwest of Haleyville, Alabama, was reputed to be the tallest bridge on the entire IC system. 

 

Lamar Lumber Co. Number 4

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A loaded log train of the Lamar Lumber Co. crests a steep hill several miles south of Clyde, Mississippi, in 1918. The locomotive, a Baldwin 2-8-0, was purchased new by the lumber company in 1912.

                                         

Merrill Meeting

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Mengel Co. number 621, a former Gulf & Ship Island 4-6-0, switches the small yard south of the Gulf Mobile & Northern RR at
Merrill, Mississippi, on a late summer evening in 1938 before heading back north to the mill at Laurel with the loaded log train. The northbound GM&N local freight behind 4-6-0 No. 180 approaches the bridge over the Pascagoula River.

 

Pearl & Leaf Rivers No. 4

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Brand new Shay No. 4 of the J. J. Newman Lumber Co., of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, rests between assignments in the woods of South Mississippi. The locomotive is lettered for the
Pearl & Leaf Rivers RR, the incorporated name of the Newman logging railroad. It was renamed the Mississippi Central Railroad shortly after this Shay was delivered. 

 

Quitman, Mississippi

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The northbound "Gulf Coast Special" of the Mobile and Ohio RR makes its daily station stop at Quitman, Mississippi, on a cold snowy morning in the early 1930's. The regular mixed train of the Mississippi Eastern Railway waits behind the depot for any connecting passengers before it starts its run to Crandall and Theadville, in eastern Clarke County.

 

Sumter Lumber Co. No. 4

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A log train of the Sumter Lumber Co. heads southeast to the large sawmill at Electric Mills, Mississippi, in Kemper County, in 1937. This locomotive, Number 4, was built by the Baldwin
Locomotive Works in 1919 and was purchased by Sumter from the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Co. in Walco, Ark., and was later used by the DeKalb & Western RR in Kemper County.

 

W. C. Wood Lumber Co. No. 2

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W. C. Wood Lumber Co. #2 heads to the company's sawmill at Collins, Mississippi, with the morning log train in 1909. The locomotive, a 2-6-0, was built new for the lumber company by Lima in 1905. 

 

H. Weston Mill at Logtown

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The log train of the H. Weston Lumber Co. pulls around to the log dump at the company's sawmill at Logtown, Mississippi, located on the Pearl River in Hancock County. Number 11 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the lumber company in 1925. 

 

Tatum Lumber Co. at McLain

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A log train of the Tatum Lumber Co. waits for a southbound freight of the Gulf Mobile & Northern Railroad to clear on a bright moonlit night in 1925. The Tatum train, which is coming off of the GM&N
Blodgett Branch from the Tatum log camp at Denco, will then proceed to the company's mill at Bonhomie, just southwest of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 

 

Mississippi Central Snow

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The westbound Mississippi Central passenger train departs Hattiesburg for Natchez on a bright morning in 1938 behind 4-4-0 number 102.

 

Eastman, Gardiner & Co. Meet

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The mainline log train of Eastman, Gardiner & Co. behind 2-4-4-2 number 64 meets Shay number 62 in the woods of southeastern Smith County, Mississippi, in 1910. The company’s large sawmill was located in Laurel from 1891 until 1937. The company called their logging railroad the Laurel & Tallahoma Western Ry. All Shay locomotives owned by the company featured the unusual full-length canopies.

 

 

 

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