Logging Locomotive

Built in 1881 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as number 5892 before delivery to the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, later known as the Central of Georgia Railroad, this old logging locomotive later bore the name "Madison" and had a balloon stack of the Bradley and Hunter pattern. Its gauge was originally five feet but was modified to standard gauge, and its engine designation is #14. The locomotive was later sold to the Empire Lumber Company of Andalusia, then acquired by the W. T. Smith Lumber Company in 1912 when that company purchased Empire Lumber and its rolling stock. It remained in logging service for fifteen more years under the leadership of the McGowin family of Chapman, Alabama. After the sale of their forest lands, it was moved to the McGowins' private property, and in 1992 Earl M. McGowin donated it to the Pike Pioneer Museum for permanent display. The old 4-4-0 type of locomotive is almost extinct.

Troy, Alabama · United States