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Good
Pine Lumber Co.
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Standard gauge, 60 and 70-lb rail
Headquarters: Stamps, Ark.
Mill Location: Good Pine, LA (LaSalle Parish)
Mill Capacity: 150,000 ft/day in 1912
Years of Operation: 1906-1935
Miles Operated: 9 miles in 1931
Locomotives Owned:
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Also see:
Trout Creek Lumber Co.
Tall Timber Lbr. Co.
Equipment:
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History
by Tony Howe:
The
Good Pine Lumber Co. was the second of three large sawmills built by William
Buchanan and associates near Jena after the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway
was completed to that point.
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Road
No.
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Type
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Builder
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C.N.
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Date
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Cyls.
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Dri.
Dia.
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Engine
Wt.
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Previous
Ownership
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Disposition
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5
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2-6-2
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Baldwin
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29984
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1/1907
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15x20
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46
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83000
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New.
Cost $8,600.
Baldwin class 10-24¼ D 60
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1st
6
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2-6-2
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Baldwin
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34466
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4/1910
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15x20
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46
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83000
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New. Cost $8,275.
Baldwin class 10-24¼ D 77
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Trout
Creek Lumber Co. #6, Trout, LA,
by
3/1912.
Tall Timber Lumber Co. #21, Good
Pine, LA
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105
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4-6-0
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Baldwin
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17317
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1/1900
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16x24
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54
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86000
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Louisiana
& Arkansas Ry. #105
Good
Pine Lumber Co., in 6/1910.
Baldwin class 10-26 D 159
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Grace Logging Co. #105, Castor, LA
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2nd
6
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2-6-2
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Baldwin
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40278
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7/1913
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17x24
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47
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117000
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New.
Cost $11,235.
Baldwin class 10-28¼ D 46
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Turkey
Creek Lumber Co. #6, Turkey Creek, LA
Evangeline
Ry. #6, Turkey Creek, LA
Scrapped 1953.
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7
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69-3
Shay
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Lima
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2819
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9/1915
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3-12x12
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32
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138000
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Tall
Timber Lumber Co. #22, Good Pine, LA
Good Pine Lumber Co. #7, ca. 1/1927.
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Scrapped ca. 1942 at Good Pine, LA.
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3
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69-3
Shay
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Lima
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2974
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5/1918
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3-12x12
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32
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138000
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Trout
Creek Lumber Co. #3, Trout, LA
Tall
Timber Lumber Co. #23, Good Pine, LA
Good Pine Lumber Co. #3, ca. 1/1927.
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