Built 03/10/1905 - Std. gauge - 12"x15" cylinders - 36" drivers - 65 tons - 3 trucks140d
It cost $9500 as delivered and was lettered for the Natchez, Columbia & Mobile RR. Shown about a year old, south of the Divide community in Lawrence County, Mississippi. Norfield was located on the Illinois Central RR a few files south of Brookhaven, Mississippi. The name "Norfield" was a contraction of the last names of the founders of the huge mill there "NORwood and butterFIELD."
Photo from "Dummy
Lines Through the Longleaf" - Bobby Garraway collection
Text and photo courtesy of David
S. Price
Built 12/30/1920 - 42" gauge - 8"x12" - 29" drivers - 32 tons
Built 02/22/1906 - Std. gauge - 12"x12" cylinders - 32" drivers - 50 tons - 3 trucks
Research by David S. Price & Gilbert H. Hoffman has shown this s/n's road number is #11 instead of the #9 noted in Koch's roster140d
Photo from S.E. Moreton Jr. collection
From "Steam Whistles in the Piney Woods - Vol 1." - posted with publisher's permission.
Built 11/10/1923 - Std. gauge - 12"x12" cylinders - 36" drivers - 60 tons - 2 trucks
See Marcellus & Otisco Lake RR #7185
Photo courtesy of John Stewart at Railfan.net
Built 11/14/1923 - standard gauge - cylinders 12"x12" - 36" drivers.
Photo courtesy of John Stewart at Railfan.net
Built 11/26/1923 - Std. gauge - cylinders 12"x12" - 36"
drivers - 60 tons - 2 trucks
Built 09/17/1925 - Std gauge - 11"x12" cylinders - 32" drivers - 50 tons - 2 trucks
Photo by Jim Shaughnessy - courtesy of John Nehrich of the Rensselaer Railroad Heritage Exhibit
Built 08/21/1907 - Std. gauge - 17"x18" - 46" - drivers - 150 tons - 4 trucks
Bud Laws collection.
| Photo source: | "Dampflokotiven
in den USA 1825-1950 / Vol. 1: 1825-1920" - by Heinrich Buchmann / Birkhäuser
Verlag, Basel 1977 <> (no photo source) Provided courtesy of Christian Halpaap of Hohenhameln-Bruendeln, Germany |