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Salmen
Brick & Lumber Co.
Slidell
& Bayou LaCombe Railroad
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Standard gauge, 56-lb rail
Headquarters: Slidell, LA
Mill Location: Slidell, LA (St. Tammany Parish)
Mill Capacity: 100,000 ft/day in 1916
Years of Operation: by 1906-1922
Miles Operated: 16 miles in 1910
Locomotives Owned:
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Equipment:
1907: 14 miles + 4 miles under
construction, 2 locomotives, 1 McGiffert loader.
1910: 16 miles + 8 miles under construction, 3
locomotives, 60 cars, 1 McGiffert loader.
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History
by Tony Howe:
The
Salmen Brothers, Fritz, Jacob and Albert, relocated from Handsboro, MS to
Slidell and opened a large brick plant on the west side of town in the
1880's. They later built a sawmill adjacent to the brick plant in 1890. A
new double band sawmill was built in 1915-16 that had a 100,000 ft per day
capacity. The original logging railroad ran north-northwest from the mill in
west Slidell, crossing the NOGN Shore Line Branch at Bonfouca. Logging spurs
were built off of the NOGN between Covington and Folsom, LA, and the company
had trackage rights on the NOGN to run log trains to the mill at Slidell.
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Salmen's log camp near Red Bluff in 1916. |
Another view at the Salmen logging camp. |
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Salmen Brick & Lumber 2-6-0 No. 12 at Slidell. |
Builder's view of Alco 2-6-0 No. 12 in 1914. |
| Photo of Salmen 10 (2-truck Shay) after it was
sold to the Pacific Northwest here.
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Baldwin 4-6-0 No. 4 was bought from Southern Iron & Equipment in
Atlanta in 1905. |
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ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:
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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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?
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2-4-0T
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Baldwin
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12223
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9/1891
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12x18
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38
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40000
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Eastman,
Gardiner & Co. Nancy, Laurel, MS
Built
as an 0-6-0T, rebuilt to 2-4-0T in 1894.
Salmen
Brick & Lumber Co., Ltd., Slidell, LA,
by 7/1902.
Baldwin class 6-18 D 10
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Rosa
Lumber Co. #1, Rosa Spur, MS,
by
6/1905.
Lacey
Lumber Co. #5 Nancy, Carriere, MS,
by
1/1912.
W.
B. Harbeson Lumber Co. Nancy,
De Funiak Springs, FL, by 2/1922.
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1
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0-4-0T
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Porter
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20000
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Unknown.
Salmen Brick & Lumber Co. #1, on
?
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4
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4-6-0
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Baldwin
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18x24
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Lehigh
Valley #
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #335
Slidell
& Bayou Lacombe R.R. #4,
on 12/30/1905.
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5
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0-4-0T
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Porter
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3609
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9/1906
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9x14
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27
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29000
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New. Built 31" gauge.
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Slidell
Brick & Tile Co. #5, Slidell, LA
Mark Smith, Fayette, MS
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9
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36-2
Heisler
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Heisler
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72000
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Unknown.
Salmen Brick & Lumber Co. #9, on
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For sale 8/1/1921.
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10
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50-2
Shay
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Lima
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2707
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6/1913
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3-11x12
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32
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100000
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New.
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For
sale 8/1/1921.
O.
W. Brown, Seattle, WA (dealer), ca. 1/1924.
Workman
Creek Logging Co. #2, South Elma, WA
Lytel Logging Co., Ocosta, WA, by
10/1935.
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12
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2-6-0
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A/Brooks
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54560
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2/1914
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19x26
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56
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140000
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New via A. Baldwin & Co., New
Orleans, LA
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Great
Southern Lumber Co. #9, Bogalusa, LA
Bogalusa
Paper Co. #9, Bogalusa, LA
Gaylord Container Corp. #9, Bogalusa,
LA.
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14
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2-6-0
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Baldwin
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1908
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Unknown.
Salmen Brick & Lumber Co. #14, on
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?
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70-3
Shay
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Lima
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2223
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2/1910
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3-12x15
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36
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140000
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Parsons
Pulp & Lumber Co. #1, Dobbin, WV
Champion
Lumber Co. #1, Crestmont, NC
Suncrest
Lumber Co. #1, Sunburst, NC,
on
12/18/1918.
Salmen Brick & Lumber Co., on ?
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For
sale 8/1/1921.
J.
J. Newman Lumber Co. 3rd #2, Hattiesburg, MS
Scrapped 1940.
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?
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50-2
Shay
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Lima
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2553
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7/1912
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3-11x12
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32
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100000
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Kirby
Lumber Co. #60, Browndell, TX
Salmen Brick & Lumber Co., on ?
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For
sale 8/1/1921.
O.
W. Brown, Seattle, WA (dealer)
M.-
B. Logging Co. #1, Markham, WA,
by
7/1926.
Scrapped 1939.
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?
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0-6-0
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Richmond
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2587
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1896
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19x24
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50
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Alabama
Great Southern R.R. #1439
Re.
#107.
Belt
Railway of Chattanooga #4,
on
4/1/1916.
Southern
Ry. #7059
Salmen Brick & Lumber Co., in
3/1923.
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?
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2-6-0
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Rogers
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5074
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10/1895
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18x24
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57
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117000
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New
Orleans & Western #1, Port Chalmette, LA
New
Orleans Terminal Co. #103, New Orleans, LA
Southern
Ry. #7079
Salmen Brick & Lumber Co., in
3/1923.
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