|
Isabella
Lumber Co. (1892-1895) Banner
Lumber Co. (1895-1905) Brooks-Scanlon
Co. (1905-1921) Kentwood
& Eastern Railway (1905-1922)
|
36" and Standard Gauge
Headquarters: Kentwood, LA
Mill Location: Kentwood, LA
Years of Operation: 1892-1922
Predecessor Roads: none
Successor Roads: none
Miles Operated: 36" gauge: Main line: Leased from Brooks-Scanlon Co.:
Kentwood, LA to Hackley, LA, 26.558 miles
Standard gauge: Main line:
Bolivar Junction, LA to Pineview, LA, 14.163 miles; leased from
Brooks-Scanlon Co.: Kentwood, LA to Bolivar Junction, 3.259 miles —
total operated, 17.422 miles.
Locomotives Owned:
|
Equipment
12/31/1918: Locomotives: 4. Cars: 2
combination, 4 box, 127 flat, 2 coal, 1 caboose, 2 service.
|
Click Map for Larger Version |
|
HISTORY by Gil Hoffman and Tony Howe:
The
Kentwood & Eastern Railroad, leased from the Brooks-Scanlon
Company on July 1, 1906, was never incorporated. The initial line of
approximately 3 miles was built in 1890 by the Isabella Lumber Company,
which extended it from time to time to a total length of about 8 miles.
On
November 1, 1895, all of the timber holdings and other properties of the
Isabella Lumber Company were sold at a United States marshal’s sale for
$32,500 to the Banner Lumber Company, Ltd., of Kentwood, LA, which
operated the railroad as a logging line. The Banner Lumber Company extended
the line over a period of time to a total length of 30.02 miles.
On
November 1, 1905, the Banner Lumber Company sold all of its holdings to the Brooks-Scanlon
Company, of Minnesota, for $450,000, which included the timberlands,
railroad and equipment and sawmill at Kentwood. On May 14, 1907, the
Brooks-Scanlon Company sold its railroad rolling stock to the Kentwood &
Eastern Railway for a lump sum of $37,500.
The
Kentwood & Eastern Railway was incorporated in Louisiana for 99
years on December 5, 1905. The first portion of the road was opened in 1905,
and subsequent portions during 1906-10. The company leased the Kentwood
& Eastern Railroad on July 1, 1906, at an annual rental of $1,000
and taxes. The
narrow gauge line from Kentwood to Hackley was abandoned about 1918. The
standard gauge line from Kentwood to Pineview was extended to a connection
with the Houlton Brothers railroad north of Uneedus, and trackage rights
were obtained by the K&E to run to Houltonville, near Madisonville. The
purpose for this agreement was to help supply much-needed lumber for the
construction of wood ships during WWI in the Madisonville area.
Brooks-Scanlon began purchasing timber in the Pacific Northwest and in
Florida several years before the mill at Kentwood finally cut out in 1922.
Some of the standard gauge equipment at Kentwood was transferred to the
Brooks-Scanlon operation near Perry, Florida.
|
An American loader at work on the K&E standard gauge line. |
36" gauge K&E 2-6-0 No. 28 was bought new from Baldwin in
1913. It was later sold to the famed Linville River in North Carolina. |
Standard gauge K&E Heisler No. 3 was fitted with an unusual
auxiliary water car, making the 2-truck engine look like a 3-truck
Heisler! |
January 1904 Official Guide of the Railways
|
June 1920 Official Guide of the Railways |
September 1910 Official Guide of the Railways |
|
|
January 1915 Official Railway Equipment Register- Art Richardson Collection
|
|
Narrow Gauge ROSTER by Leon Ford
and Gil Hoffman:
|
Road
No.
|
Type
|
Builder
|
C.N.
|
Date
|
Cyls.
|
Dri.
Dia.
|
Engine
Wt.
|
Previous
Ownership
|
Disposition
|
|
1
|
2-6-0
|
T. H. Paul?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Secondhand.
Named Clara Preston.
|
Dropped by 11/1/1905.
|
|
2
|
2-6-0
|
T. H. Paul?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Secondhand.
Named Zoe Preston.
|
Brooks-Scanlon
Co. #2, on 11/1/1905.
Kentwood & Eastern
#2.
|
|
3
|
2-4-0
|
Porter
|
226
|
8/1875
|
11x16
|
42
|
32000
|
Hot
Springs R.R. #1, Malvern, AR
Queen
City Lumber Co., Queen City, TX
George
M. Dilley & Son, Pasadena, TX (dealer)
Isabella
Lumber Co. #3 Geo. S., Jr.,
on 4/14/1894.
|
Banner
Lumber Co. #3, n 10/5/1895.
East Union Mills #2 Tom Leake,
Hyde, LA.
|
|
4
|
2-6-0
|
Brooks
|
1529
|
4/1889
|
15x18
|
38
|
61000
|
J.
E. Potts Salt & Lumber Co. #3, Potts, MI
Au
Sable & Northwestern #3, Au Sable, MI, in 9/1891.
Banner
Lumber Co. #4 L. L. Lampton,
in 1/1899.
|
Brooks-Scanlon
Co. #4, on 11/1/1905.
Kentwood
& Eastern #4.
Re. #24.
|
|
5
|
2-8-0
|
Baldwin
|
6134
|
4/1882
|
15x20
|
36
|
60000
|
Built
as Denver & Rio Grande
#293
Returned
to Baldwin and resold to: Baltimore & Delta #3 Thomas C. Jenkins,
on
5/22/1882.
Maryland
Central #3, in
8/1882.
Baltimore
& Lehigh #3, in
5/1891.
Banner
Lumber Co. #5
Baldwin class 10-24½ E 63
|
Brooks-Scanlon
Co. #5, on 11/1/1905.
Kentwood
& Eastern #5.
Re. #22.
|
|
6
|
2-8-0
|
Grant
|
|
6/1882
|
15x20
|
|
60000
|
(tentative)
Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis #57-66.
Banner Lumber Co. #6, on ?
|
Brooks-Scanlon
Co. #6, on 11/1/1905.
Kentwood
& Eastern #6.
Re. #23.
|
|
21
|
2-6-0
|
T. H. Paul?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Re. from K&E #2.
|
Dropped by 6/30/1916.
|
|
22
|
2-8-0
|
Baldwin
|
6134
|
4/1882
|
15x20
|
36
|
60000
|
Re. from K&E #5.
|
General
Equipment Co., New Orleans, LA
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #1595
J.
H. Burnaman, Newton, TX, on 5/11/1920.
Southern Iron & Equipment Co.
#1707 (repossession).
|
|
23
|
2-8-0
|
Grant
|
|
6/1882
|
15x20
|
|
60000
|
Re. from K&E #6.
|
In service 6/30/1916.
|
|
24
|
2-6-0
|
Brooks
|
1529
|
4/1889
|
15x18
|
38
|
61000
|
Re. from K&E #4.
|
In service 6/30/1916.
|
|
25
|
2-6-0
|
Brooks
|
|
|
14x18
|
|
60000
|
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #520
Kentwood & Eastern #25, on
12/27/1912. Cost $2,975.
|
Retired
1917.
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #1522
Brownlee Lumber Co., Shubuta, MS, on
1/20/1920
|
|
26
|
30-2
Shay
|
Lima
|
702
|
8/1902
|
3-10x10
|
28
|
59500
|
J.
E. Henry & Sons #4, North Woodstock, NH
Built
standard gauge
Brooks-Scanlon Co. #26
|
Changed
to 36-inch gauge by Brooks-Scanlon Co.
Changed
back to std. gauge #26.
|
|
27
|
2T
Shay
|
Lima
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown.
Brooks-Scanlon Co. #27
|
|
|
28
|
2-6-0
|
Baldwin
|
39697
|
4/1913
|
16x20
|
44
|
74000
|
New
for K&E. Cost $8,000.
Baldwin class 8-26 D 181
|
General
Equipment Co., New Orleans, LA
Linville
River #28,
Cranberry, NC, in 1922.
Scrapped ca. 1940.
|
Standard Gauge ROSTER by Leon Ford and Gil Hoffman:
|
Road
No.
|
Type
|
Builder
|
C.N.
|
Date
|
Cyls.
|
Dri.
Dia.
|
Engine
Wt.
|
Previous
Ownership
|
Disposition
|
|
2
|
37-2
Heisler
|
Stearns
|
1060
|
1902
|
15x12
|
36
|
74000
|
Brooks-Scanlon
Lumber Co. #2, Scanlon, MN
Brooks-Scanlon
Co. #2, Kentwood, LA,
ca. 1906.
|
Used by C. H. Stevens Logging Co.
(logging contractor for Brooks-Scanlon).
|
|
3
|
37-2
Heisler
|
Heisler
|
1137
|
1907
|
15x12
|
36
|
74000
|
New
for K&E Ry.
Saddletank type.
|
Used
by C. H. Stevens Logging Co. (logging contractor for
Brooks-Scanlon).
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #918,
on
4/25/1913, in trade on#887.
Brown
Lumber Co. #3, Hiwannee, MS,
on
5/10/1913.
Jeffris
Lumber Co., Jeffris, LA
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #1230
Choctaw
Lumber Co. #8, Bolinger, AL,
on
9/28/1917.
Birmingham
Rail & Locomotive Co. #1212, on 2/2/1918.
Little Rock Lumber & Mfg. Co. #2,
Retting, AR, on 3/29/1919.
|
|
10
|
2-6-0
|
Baldwin
|
30198
|
2/1907
|
16x24
|
50
|
94000
|
New
for K&E Ry. Cost $8,700.
Baldwin class 8-26 D 171
|
Philip
A. Ryan Lumber Co. #3, Lufkin, TX, by 12/1922.
Birmingham
Rail & Locomotive Co. #1712
Alabama
Central Ry. #10, Autaugaville, AL, on 9/28/1936.
Twin Seams Mining Co. #1, Kellerman,
AL.
|
|
11
|
2-6-0
|
A/Dickson
|
26262
|
11/1902
|
19x26
|
56
|
129000
|
Duluth,
Virginia & Rainy Lake #11,
Virginia, MN
Minnesota
& North Wisconsin #11, in 1906.
Kentwood & Eastern #11
|
General
Equipment Co., New Orleans, LA
Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees
#11, Lumberton & Kiln, MS, in 9/1921.
|
|
26
|
30-2
Shay
|
Lima
|
702
|
8/1902
|
3-10x10
|
28
|
59500
|
Rebuilt
from 36-inch gauge #26.
|
Used
by C. H. Stevens Logging Co. (logging contractor for
Brooks-Scanlon).
Central Cambalache #13, Arecibo,
Puerto Rico. Changed to meter gauge.
|
|
32
|
2-6-0
|
Dickson
|
354
|
8/1882
|
18x24
|
56¾
|
97600
|
New
York, Lackawanna & Western #30
Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western #291,
in
1899.
Minnesota
& North Wisconsin #291,
on
5/16/1902.
Kentwood & Eastern #32, ca. 1906.
|
Brooks-Scanlon Corp. #32, Eastport,
FL, in 1922.
|
|
50
|
2-6-0
|
Lima
|
5923
|
2/1920
|
18x24
|
44
|
121000
|
New
for Brooks-Scanlon Co.
Cost $24,273.
|
Evansville,
Suburban & Newburgh #8,
Evansville, IN, by 11/1922.
Scrapped 1947.
|
|
196
|
2-6-0
|
Dickson
|
414
|
3/1883
|
18x24
|
56
|
|
Delaware
& Hudson Canal Co.
(A.
& E. Divn.) #196 Schenevus
Minnesota
& North Wisconsin #196, Scanlon, MN
Kentwood & Eastern #196, ca.
1906.
|
In service
6/30/1916.
|
|
238
|
2-6-0
|
Baldwin
|
8441
|
3/1887
|
18x24
|
54
|
87000
|
Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe #73
Re.
#356 in 1898.
Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe #0198,
in 1900.
Minnesota
& North Wisconsin #238, Scanlon, MN, in 9/1902.
Kentwood
& Eastern #238, ca. 1906.
Baldwin class
8-30 D 239
|
|
|
887
|
4-6-0
|
Schen.
|
|
|
18x24
|
55
|
|
Unknown.
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #619
Augusta
Southern #71, Augusta, GA,
on
9/18/1907.
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #887
Brooks-Scanlon
Co. #887,
on 4/25/1913. Cost $4,850 with $3,600
allowed in trade on Heisler #3.
|
|
|
1208
|
4-4-0
|
Taunton
|
454
|
2/1869
|
16x24
|
54
|
60500
|
Mineral
Point #4 Platteville
Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul #430, in 1881.
Re.
#1208 in 1899.
Minnesota
& North Wisconsin #1208, Scanlon, MN, in 10/1901.
Kentwood & Eastern #1208, ca.
1906.
|
In service
6/30/1916.
|
|
HOME
ABOUT US
LINKS
For more information contact
Tony Howe at tonyhowe76@yahoo.com
or David S. Price at davidsprice46@gmail.com
|